OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Oct 18, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 42.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A CHURCH school was opened at Sandyville, Iowa, on the 2d inst.

ON the 9th ult. three candidates were baptized at Sharpsburg, Iowa.

NINE candidates were baptized at the recent camp-meeting at Longmont, Colo.

IN the vicinity of Deer, Minn., Brother F. Johnson reports the baptism of fifteen persons.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of eighteen members was organized at Redlands, Cal., September 16.

BROTHER H. C. BASNEY reports the baptism of six candidates in Casco Bay, at Cliff Island, Maine.

AT Carrollton, Mo., Brethren C. H. Chaffee and L. W. Terry report eight converts in connection with their meetings.

AT Joplin, Mo., the funds have been raised for a church school; and at Tarsney they are erecting a school building.

MANY good words are said in the Workers' Bulletin concerning the late local camp-meeting at Charles City, Iowa. The brethren were greatly encouraged, and thirteen converts were baptized.

OF labor at Cripple Creek, Altman, and Anaconda, Colo., Brother B. W. Marsh reports to Echoes from the Field that nineteen had been baptized and several others were awaiting the opportunity.

FROM Valparaiso, Chile, Brother G. H. Baber writes encouragingly of the work. He takes a club of twenty-five copies of the SIGNS, besides other of our periodicals, of which he reports expressions of appreciation by those who read.

A SAN FRANCISCO worker devotes to the relief of the destitute all the proceeds of sales made by her of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and a recent report showed that, as a result of thirty-six hours' work in visiting and calling among the people, two hundred and four copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES were sold.

AT the recent annual meeting of the Michigan Tract Society, one of the resolutions adopted was the following: "That we unite with the publishers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and the American Sentinel in putting forth more earnest efforts to circulate these most valuable factors in teaching the truth to others, by taking them in clubs, by selling single copies, and by securing subscriptions for three months, six months, or one year."

A LETTER from Brother T. L. Guthrie, of Cardiff, Ala., notes that they have in that place "a nice little Seventh-day Adventist Church" and a prosperous Sabbath-school. He says, "I don't see how the people can reject God's Word so much." Well, Jesus tells us how the Jews of His time came to reject God's Word, and the same cause leads to the same effect to-day. The reason is given in Matt. 13:15: "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed." And our message to the rejecters of truth is the same as was that of Ezekiel to Israel in captivity: "Son of man, all My words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears, and go, . . . speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear." Eze. 3: 10, 11.

IN urging the importance of the World's Harvest Number of the SIGNS upon his people, President J. M. Rees, of Colorado Conference, says: "I would advise that every minister and worker in the conference take hold of this work, helping the tract societies to make up their list, and instruct them how to sell and dispose of them. I do not think that your time could be better employed in the work. Will the librarians of the different societies, assisted by the church elders, begin this work immediately? We trust that the Lord will direct in the good work for this special number." The conference whose president thus sees the importance of this enterprise, and whose people follow this good advice in a spirit of faith, will not fail of success in the disposition of the papers, nor fail to experience results that could not be so well accomplished in any other way for the short time that will be allotted to it. If all the conferences will take hold of this work in this spirit, there will be in the near future a general forward movement all along the line such as we have not seen for some time. Such opportunities for a united pull all together do not come every day.