OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE camp-meeting of Virginia Conference will be held at Charlottesville, August 12-22.

ELDER A. J. OSBORNE reports the addition of four members to the church at Sebastopol, Cal., since the State camp-meeting. They were baptized at Forestville.

ELDER L. P. JACOBSON reports that nine Finnish people have been added to the San Francisco church within the last four months. Others of this "warm-hearted people" are deeply interested in the truth.

THE Christian help workers in this city find many needy persons and families, and they also report a corresponding disposition on the part of the people to assist those to whom their attention is called. As our workers become known to the people, voluntary offers of assistance come to them. Brother A. Brorsen reported at a recent missionary meeting that a baker had sought him out to place 300 loaves of bread at his disposal.

WE have received an elaborate calendar of Keene Industrial Academy, situated at Keene, Texas. It contains a full account of the institution, its courses of instruction, home life, and general purposes, together with illustrations showing the Academy Hall, the Assembly Hall, and the Home. The next term begins October 27. Elder C. McReynolds is president of the board of managers, and Prof. C. C. Lewis is secretary. Professor Lewis is also principal of the school. The other instructors are August Kunz, A. M., Charles H. Hodges, B. S., Mrs. Flora H. Williams, Miss Pear Blocher, B. S. D., Miss Hattie E. White, Mrs. Mary E. Reisinger, Homer E. Giddings, Mrs. Lida Moore.

A CORRESPONDENT of the American Sentinel relates that Thomas Furman, one of our brethren, was recently fined $5.00 and costs, or ten days' imprisonment, for having two loads of wood hauled to his house at Barton, Fla., on Sunday. The charge was "disturbing the peace." The persons "disturbed" were in a church near by making a table on which to take the communion. Two other wagons went by about the same time, but they did not disturb the complainants—presumably because they were not driven by persons who observe the seventh day as the Sabbath. It was evidently the fact that the defendant keeps the Sabbath of the fourth commandment that disturbed the complainants, rather than the wood-hauling on Sunday. "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Rom. 8:7.

DR. A. S. CARMICHAEL writes from the mission in Matabeleland, May 15, to friends in Iowa, and we take the following from his letter as it appears in the Workers' Bulletin:-

"Last week Brethren Tripp, Anderson, Burton, and myself made a trip to the Druillard farm (a farm that was donated to the mission by Brother Druillard), about fifteen miles northwest from here. We found on it a number of deserted native villages, but not a living soul was to be seen. The surrounding country was quite level. At some distance we found a family living in their field of grain to watch it, and on our way back we passed several other families living in the same way. But very little grain was growing. Their principal crop consisted of armijodas, a species of melon. They dry them in the sun, and then cook them. They also dry the seeds, and grind them for meal. There was a remarkable scarcity of grain, and the natives will evidently be in a starving condition the coming year. There were not many children among them, and they have likely perished from hunger. Whole villages have perished in this way, not one of the inhabitants escaping. Our crops are short this year, as we had no plow during the cropping season. All we planted had to be put in with hoe, and then the season was a dry one. Near my house is a wet piece of land, and from this we are securing quite an abundant supply of vegetables, such as squash, tomatoes, lettuce, and ground cherries or cape gooseberries. In a few days we will have roasting ears. On such land we can have a succession of crops all the year round."