OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1899

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

DURING January four persons were baptized and united with the church in Denver, Colo.

A CANVASSERS' institute was begun on the 22d ult. at New London, Wis., to continue four weeks.

THE addition of four members to the church at Cañon City, Colo., is reported by Brother G. W. Anglebarger.

IN the Oklahoma Gleaner we note a report of Brother E. T. Russell which mentions the organization of a church at Watonga, O. T.

THE collections of the fourth Sabbath in January throughout the Sabbath-schools of New Zealand were devoted to the work of furnishing the Health Home in Christchurch.

A LETTER from Sister Vesta J. Farnsworth, of January 19, notes that fifteen persons had accepted the doctrines of our faith at Wanganui, N. Z., as a result of labor subsequent to the camp-meeting held at that place in the autumn. There was still a good interest.

FOUR general meetings are announced for Montana in April: Livingston, 4-9; Great Falls, 11-16; Missoula, 18-23; Butte, 25-30. The last on the list is to be a laborers' and canvassers' institute.

THE new sanitarium building at Keene, Texas, is said by the Reporter to be "progressing finely." The building is three stories high, and when completed will have accommodations for an extensive patronage.

NEW YORK CONFERENCE seems to be taking on new life; there is a manifest disposition to give the "pioneer" a chance to do its work in that great and important field. The SIGNS list has more than doubled in the last two months.

GOOD reports of sales of the Quarter-Centennial SIGNS still reach us from various localities. Brother O. S. Ferren sold 700 copies in Cheyenne, Wyo., and was continuing the work in other places at last report, although he often "wallowed through snow knee deep." At the doors he would say, "I can't wait for pleasant days; my business is urgent." He has sold to all classes of people, from the governor down. Other brethren were also meeting with success in the work.

BROTHER C. McREYNOLDS says of the work in Galveston, Texas: "The mission that has been running under the care and management of Mrs. Yates, and which receives the fostering care of the popular churches, has been turned over to our workers. The various departments of work carried on are Gospel meetings, a mission sunday-school, free kindergarten, free dispensary, treatments for both men and women, a free reading-room, and they hope to start a lunch counter soon." Brother H. Menkel has charge of the work.

OUR general agent for Wisconsin, Anna M. Jensen, writes to the Reporter: "Some of our brethren are taking a great interest in the SIGNS' work. Also our church schools are having good success in selling the Quarter-Centennial number. One school writes me that they have sold about 400 copies, and feel it has been a great blessing to them. Another, 200 copies. Still others tell me they are going to take up the work. Why should not all our schools take hold of this work and thus be gaining an experience in missionary work? It was my privilege to spend a few hours at Fort Atkinson in selling the special number, and in 25 houses I sold 22 papers. I fully believe this paper will sell right along till another comes out. Brethren, let us not become weary in this good work, but continue till all have been warned, and the dear Lord will take us home."

REPORTING to the Workers' Record of February 1, Brother L. W. Felter says:—

"The first year's existence of the Kansas City Mission is in the past. One year ago to-night a number of those who were interested in the work assembled at the mission, and the building, which had been used for a saloon, gambling den, and immoral purposes generally, where men and women were debauched, degraded, and dragged downward toward eternal destruction, was dedicated to the work of arresting souls in their downward course, turning their faces Zionward, and assisting them in their efforts to be restored to the image of their Maker. The first day the mission was opened, we served 3 or 4 meals, but it soon became known, and soon we were serving 100. This winter it runs from 130 to 180 per day, and during the year 30,300 have been served. Of these about 500 have been worked for and 250 given away. The first night we had 2 beds; at present we have 65, and the total number furnished during the year is 12,500; 240 pieces of clothing have been distributed, and 35 families helped."

A LETTER from Sister Mina Braucht, dated Apia, Samoa, January 18, to Sister Cora Chapman, of Oakland, Cal., gives this bit of information, which will be of interest to many of our readers:—

"The Samoan governmental affairs are in rather a sad condition just now, and we have been passing through a civil war. You may have seen something already in the papers about it. One party had threatened to exterminate the white people, so we have not known what a day or a night would bring forth. But we did not fear, for we knew that the angels of the Lord were encamped round about us. The first battle was fought one week ago Sunday, and our house was in the midst of the battle-ground. The bullets were flying all about us, some hitting the iron roof, and one knocked the arm off a rocking-chair that stood on the upper veranda. Tho the natives have been looting and burning all around us, thus far ourselves and the property have been unharmed. 'We are,' the natives say, as they went by, that this place is sa (forbidden). It seems that they have been forbidden to touch anything here. The experiences through which we have just passed have drawn us nearer to the Lord, and we have learned lessons of trust. The promises of God never seemed so precious to me as during this time of danger and excitement."