OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 50.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

BROTHER E. H. ADAMS and wife, of Iowa, are to take charge of the mission home soon to be established at Lincoln, Neb.

BROTHER W. A. GOSNER and wife, of Battle Creek, Mich., have gone to the Bay Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, to teach in the new school being established there.

ELDER P. F. BICKNELL and family of Vermont have arrived in South Africa, to engage in the Gospel work. Miss Walston, who accompanied them, will engage in teaching at the Plumstead Orphanage.

ALREADY the medical and surgical sanitarium at Claremont, South Africa, has to be enlarged in order to properly accommodate the increasing patronage. The managers are building an addition which will comprise a large dining-room, a gymnasium, and thirty sleeping-rooms. Such is the appreciation of rational methods of treatment on the part of the public, and the assurance of continued prosperity.

An encouraging report of our Benevolent Home in Kimberley, South Africa, is found in the November South African Sentinel, published at Cape Town. It notes steady progress and enlarged facilities. "For some months the thirty beds have been occupied each night, and at present other sleeping room has to be provided. The rooms first used as sleeping apartments have been renovated and the front fitted up into a commodious waiting-room, where hygienic coffee and health foods are kept for sale. The work of the baths is growing as the people are becoming better acquainted with the benefits to be derived. The wood yard is furnishing work for a large number of men, who at present have no other means of support; 100 men come under the care of the home monthly; 35 are present at each meal, and some 10 families in the town are supplied with food." To people at a distance, it seems strange to associate a benevolent home with a city built in a diamond field; but this is only one of the many anomalies this world affords. In common with other ingredients of wealth, the diamonds go into the coffers of the few, while many seek and do not find. Not so with the true riches, which all find who earnestly and lawfully seek for them. The "pearl of great price" can only be obtained by selling all to obtain it.