OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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BROTHER A. SCHAUPP reports three new Sabbath-keepers at Custer, Mich.

ELDER WM. COVERT baptized two persons at Aztalan, Wis., October 17.

OCTOBER 15 four new members were added to the church at Ellicottville, N. Y.

TEN persons were baptized in the San Francisco church on the 6th inst., by Elder H. H. Dexter.

ELDER J. S. WASHBURN reports the baptism of three persons in the sea, at Plymouth, Eng., September 11.

ELDER B. F. STUREMAN baptized three persons in Fremont, Mich., at the time of the last quarterly meeting of the church in that place.

DURING the general meeting held at Northcreek, Warren County N. Y., last month, sixteen members were added to the church in that place.

A LATE report of Elder Wm. Hutchison, laboring in the tabernacle at Lisburn, Ireland, states that the former strong prejudice seems to have subsided to some extent, and the attendance and interest are the best he has seen in Ireland for several years.

AT Duncombe Hall, North London, October 9, two candidates were baptized, and two others, who were prevented from attendance on that day, awaited another opportunity.

AT Skodsborg, Denmark, nine miles from Copenhagen, a seaside property has been secured for a sanitarium, which is to be under the charge of Dr. Ottosen. Preparations are also being made for the manufacture of health foods.

ELDER E. HILLIARD and Brother E. S. BUTZ are building a schoolhouse in Tonga, Friendly Islands. The school has grown too large to be accommodated in their private apartments. The new house will accommodate about fifty pupils, and is being built with funds earned in that field.

DR. J. H. KELLOGG, of the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, has been invited by the Eighth District Convention of the Michigan W. C. T. U. to acquaint the local unions of that district with his method of health club work, and to feel at liberty to seek their co-operation whenever possible.

IN the issue of November 2 of our good church paper, the Review and Herald, published at Battle Creek, Mich., there is a picture of Elder D. U. Hale, and Brother and Sister Kerr, of the Gold Coast, Africa, mission and four native converts. These four—G. F. Grant and F. I. U. Dolphijn and two sons—were baptized last spring, but Brother Dolphijn has been keeping the Lord's Sabbath since 1888.

THE Michigan Tract Society organ, Field Echoes, says: "Elder Ballenger sends an encouraging word from London, Ontario. Two families have recently begun to observe the Sabbath. One man who has just begun to keep the Lord's day has a manufacturing plant in which he employs quite a number of hands. He has closed his place of business on the Sabbath, which is causing many to inquire about the truth."

THE brethren in Colorado have secured a large four-story building in Denver for a medical mission and workingmen's home. It is situated on the corner of Blake and Fifteenth Streets. There are eighty-five rooms in addition to the ground floor. They evidently believe that the time has come for them to go "into the streets and lanes of the city," and bring in to the Master's supper "the maimed, and the halt, and the blind."

THE Polynesian Committee, heretofore known as the Pitcairn Committee, has been enlarged to five members, as follows: C. H. Jones, J. E. Graham, A. J. Breed, M. C. Wilcox, E. A. Chapman. The Pitcairn is to start on another voyage as soon as a crew and corps of missionaries can be secured and other necessary preparations effected. It has been decided that the date of sailing must not be later than March 1, 1898.

MRS. W. C. GRAINGER and daughter, who sailed from San Francisco, October 21, for Japan, to join the husband and father in mission work at Tokio, report their safe arrival at Honolulu on the 28th. They were then in good health and courage, and after a few hours' stop, their vessel steamed on, and the next landing will be on Japanese soil. They report a good degree of prosperity in the sanitarium and in the Chinese school at Honolulu.

A CANVASSER in Huron County, Mich., was recently much encouraged by a lady's saying to him, as he delivered a book she had ordered, "This makes five books you have delivered to me; come again." If canvassers would stick to a field till the people become well acquainted with them and their work—and so conduct themselves and their business that the acquaintance become favorable—there would be many more books sold.

ELDER E. J. WAGGONER relates, in the Missionary Worker of London, an interesting case of conversion in connection with the Bible school held July 13 to September 20 in Frederikshavn, Denmark: "A young lady of education, a theosophist, who is sent out by the city of Christiania to investigate and make reports on the subject of vegetarianism, cookery, etc., visited the class for a few days on her way to Germany, having heard that there was to be instruction in the line of healthful living. While there she attended the Bible class, and became so much interested that her three or four days lengthened into more than twice as many weeks, during which time she was a most earnest student of the Bible. The result was that she heartily embraced the truth, was baptized, and went on her way rejoicing."