OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 44.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE attendance at Battle Creek (Mich.) College has reached almost five hundred students.

AT the last quarterly meeting at Poy Sippi, Wis., three new members were added to the church.

AT Lehigh, Kansas, a church school was opened on the 25th ult., with a promise of over forty pupils.

MEDICAL missionary work has been inaugurated in Butte, Mont., by Brother C. G. Allen and wife, late of Wisconsin.

ELDER W. H. SAXBY, late of Ohio Conference, has taken up the city work in Louisville, Ky. His address is 2431 W. Broadway.

THE church at Lime Ridge, Wis., received five new members at the last quarterly meeting. Three were baptized by Elder W. S. Shreve.

THE formal opening of the new training-school for medical missionaries in Chicago has been set for the 13th and 14th of the present month.

ELDER J. C. MIKKELSEN reports the baptism of four candidates at Rock Falls, Wis., and a church organization was effected at the same place.

ELDER J. W. WESTPHAL baptized a husband and wife at Medora, Kansas, October 21. He is now laboring with the German population of Atchison.

ELDER M. H. GREGORY reports twelve converts and a Sabbath-school of thirty members, in connection with meetings held at Rosedale, a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas.

ELDER FRANCIS HOPE, who went from California to England nine years ago, and has labored in that field ever since, returned to his former home in this city with his family on the 28th ult.

TENT-MEETINGS held at St. Martins, N. B., conducted by Elder G. E. Langdon and others, have resulted in the addition of twenty or more to the ranks of those who adhere to the Sabbath of the Lord—the "perpetual covenant" and "sign" between him and his people "forever." Ex. 31: 16, 17.

DURING the last quarter six members were added to the church of colored brethren at Danville, Va. Also at Portsmouth, where Brother J. H. Strickland has been laboring, a good interest is reported among the colored people; about a dozen families are keeping the Sabbath "according to the commandment."

THE statement in last week's paper that Montana Mission Field had been organized into a State Conference was an error. It is still a mission field, but in charge of an executive committee, consisting of Elders C. N. Martin, W. J. Stone, and C. E. Shafer. Brother L. A. Gibson is secretary, and the Montana Tract Society is treasurer.

ELDER J. H. DURLAND, president of the Michigan Conference, announces that several church institutes will be held during the winter. Instruction will be given to church, tract society, and Sabbath-school officers. One has already been held at Allegan, and another is appointed for Charlotte, from the 23d to the 30th of the present month.

ELDER JOHN F. JONES writes concerning tent-meetings held at Wilmington, Del., immediately after the camp-meeting. Elders V. L. Lucas, E. E. Franke, and himself had each given some labor in connection with the meetings, until cold weather necessitated the close of tent labor. As a result nine were baptized, and several others began keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, who had not yet united with the church. He adds, "The whole city has been stirred as never before, and many are saying, 'Men and brethren, what shall we do?' It is a sad fact that communities are often stirred by the solemn message of the Lord's soon coming and the impending judgment, but the cross connected with a firm stand on the unpopular truth impels them to 'quench the Spirit' and do nothing. Those who will stand in the 'brightness of his coming' (2 Thess. 2:8) will be 'they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus' (Rev. 14:12)."