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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 15, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 46.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE church school at Moon, Wis., reports an enrolment of forty-five pupils.
AT the last quarterly meeting of the church in Kansas City, Kansas, eleven new members were added.
SIX members have been added to the company at League City, Texas, under the labors of J. N. Sommerville.
AT Abilene and Enterprise, Kansas, twenty-five converts are reported by Brethren C. A. Beeson and A. R. Ogden.
THE brethren of Montana Conference have started a subscription for the purpose of putting a colporter wagon in the field next spring.
AT a called meeting of the churches of Portland, Deering, and Falmouth, Me., it has been decided to establish a mission in Portland.
THE biennial conference of General Conference District No. 1, will be held at South Lancaster, Mass., November 28 to December 10.
THERE is to be a meeting of the Foreign Mission Board, at its rooms, 150 Nassau Street, N. Y., December 12, which, it is expected, will be continued two or three weeks.
AFTER three weeks' progress the church school at Topeka, Kansas, reports thirty pupils, with a good interest and every prospect of success. It is taught by Mrs. J. W. Westphal.
THE church of Allentown, Mo., was reorganized, October 22, with eighteen members. In connection with this service five persons were baptized by Brother A. P. Heacock.
THE Kansas Worker of October 25 stated that there were already orders in for 6,000 copies of the World's Harvest issue of the SIGNS. Orders were still coming in at that date.
THE church school at Thayer, Kansas, numbering eighteen pupils, is taught by Sister Nora Hiatt. The school at Galena is taught by Sister Stella Secrist. We learn that there is also a good school at Emporia.
TWO CANDIDATES were baptized and added to the church at Poplar Bluff, Mo., October 22, Brother W. S. Cruzan officiating. The church, tho small, voted to take 1,000 copies of the World's Harvest issue of the SIGNS.
FOUR persons were recently baptized at Appleton, Wis., by Brother C. J. Herrman. The Reporter also notes other additions, as follows: At Linwood, four; at Brodhead, two; at Oakland, six; at Milton, one; at Ashland, two.
A REPORT of labor from Brethren C. H. Chaffee and L. W. Terry, in the Workers' Record, notes the conversion of sixteen persons through meetings held at Carrollton, and the addition of five members to the church at Goldsberry, Mo.
FROM the Boulder, Colo., Helping Hand we learn that Brother D. T. Jones, who has been sojourning in that State for some time, has returned to Guadalajara, Mexico, to resume active duty as superintendent of the sanitarium at that place.
IN the Bulletin of October 24 we notice that the Iowa Tract Society had already received orders for 5,000 copies of the World's Harvest number of the SIGNS, and orders were still coming in daily. The editor adds, "The prospects for a large circulation of this paper are favorable."
A REPORT from Union College, College View, Neb., says: "Our enrolment has reached 318, and new students are continually coming. We have a much larger number in the Home than in former years." Another report says, "This is the best year in the history of the college."
THE church school at Spokane, Wash., will be taught by Prof. I. C. Colcord and wife the coming winter. The school at Seattle, Wash., will be conducted by Brother Boorman and wife. Sister Clara Rogers, also of Upper Columbia Conference, goes to Montevilla, Oregon, to teach the church school.
DR. T. J. ALLEN, of the well-known Battle Creek, Mich., Sanitarium, has located in Oklahoma City, and is putting in bath and treatment rooms, which will be ready for use about November 1. The rooms will be complete in every respect, and heated by steam. Office and consultation rooms in connection. Dr. Allen's nine years' experience at the Battle Creek Sanitarium renders him thoroughly acquainted with all the methods of treatment used in that institution. Those wishing to avail themselves of the advantages of the treatment rooms in Oklahoma City can obtain particulars and rates by addressing Thos. J. Allen, M.D., 209 Main St., Oklahoma City, Okla. Ter.
A LETTER from Brother W. H. Thurston, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to the Wisconsin Reporter, says: "Our work so far has been mostly among the Germans and what few English-speaking people there are here, but we are now getting books and tracts, and will soon have a paper in the Portuguese language, and be laboring directly for the natives."
A GOOD report of the camp-meeting at Anoka, Minn., comes in the Worker: "As the needs of foreign fields were considered, many hearts were touched, and responded by raising $200, which was sent immediately to the relief of destitute missionaries, and $400 was pledged, which it is hoped will be realized soon. Many pledged from this time on to pay a second tithe for the support of the foreign work. A real spirit of consecration was manifest."
AS FAR as heard from, the brethren in Kansas have subscribed enough means to send the SIGNS to 1,535 persons for six months. Of course these papers will reach many more individuals than those to whom they are directed, as most of them will go to families. The church at Atchison is sending to 103 families in that county. The conference laborers who attended the Wichita camp-meeting donated a liberal fund with which to send the papers to families in Sherman and Sheridan Counties. This is certainly an expedient mode of working with the "pioneer."
AN appeal from Brother J. M. Freeman, missionary in Basutoland, is made to the South African brethren for assistance in erecting a schoolhouse and other inexpensive buildings. Among other things mentioned are a wagon, and six oxen, which are said to be very scarce since the rinderpest plague destroyed so much live stock in that country. Brethren Freeman and Kalaka met a very cordial reception in their new field from the natives, who are very anxious to have their children taught. Their address is Mount Kola, Mafeting, Basutoland, South Africa.
A SURPLUS of several hundred dollars in the treasury of the Oklahoma Conference is to be used in extending the circulation of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in those regions where there are no churches. Here is wisdom. When a conference decides to follow the Lord's order, and prepare the way for the advancement of the work by sending forth the "pioneer" into new fields, success will surely follow. Consecrated laymen can carry, women and children can carry—yes, even the U. S. mails can carry—the "silent preacher" where the living preachers can not be sent on account of their scarcity. Where the "pioneer" is liberally circulated, there will soon come a demand for other publications, and for the living minister to organize and care for the fruit.