OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 14, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 24.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

SEVEN members were recently added to the church at Lehigh, Kansas.

FIVE candidates were recently baptized at Elgin, Kansas, by Brother Brock.

THE church school started at Mankato, Minn., March 15, now has twenty-two pupils.

A CHURCH of fourteen members was recently organized at Russell, Lucas County, Iowa.

MAY 13, three new members were added to the church in Topeka, Kansas. On the same day two were added to the church at Cambridge.

THE Omaha, Neb., church school has been moved from the city to the country, where a few acres of ground have been secured for the use of the pupils.

NINE persons were baptized at Burlington, Iowa, May 6, by Brother C. A. Washburn. He also baptized eleven candidates on the 13th, at Mount Pleasant.

UNDER the labors of Brother J. W. Scoles at St. James, Ill., fifteen have been added to the church, together with a Sabbath-school organization of about twice that number.

A NEW house of worship was dedicated at Glenwood, Iowa, May 7. This is the only church owned by our people in Mills County, and has attracted considerable attention.

THE steamer St. Louis, which sailed from New York to England, May 3, carried thirty-five of our people, bound for different parts of the world in the interest of the cause of truth.

THE brethren of Nebraska have decided to open an orphans' home at College View. The use of a house and grounds have been donated for the purpose of inaugurating the enterprise.

AT Hutsonville, Ill., Brother Ernest Miller reports that six persons have begun to keep the Sabbath "according to the commandment." Also that a Sabbath-school has been organized.

IN a report to the Review from Brother Juan McCarthy, concerning the cause in Argentina, we note the organization of two companies,—one at Ocampo with twenty-one members, and one at San Antonio. Most of these were formerly Roman Catholics.

BROTHER F. I. MEAD and party of missionaries reached Buluwayo, Rhodesia, Africa, April 4. Brethren Anderson and Armitage met them at the depot with an eight-mule team. After driving all night and until 4 P.M. the next day, they reached their destination at the mission farm.

AT Port Elizabeth, on the southeast coast of Africa, Brother W. S. Hyatt, formerly president of Kansas Conference, was holding tent meetings in April. On the 14th of that month he wrote a letter to the Kansas Worker, from which we take these items: "This is a very important shipping point, and one of the largest towns in this country. There are about 30,000 inhabitants, people of all classes. Less than half of them are white. The colored people here are very much like those in America. They are of all shades, from the coal black to those that are nearly white. I never was in a section where there are so many children; they are of all shades, and a tougher set of little fellows would be hard to find."

A REPORT of the church school in a suburb of Topeka, Kansas, which appeared in a recent number of the Worker, says: "Altho it was of only three months' duration, the benefits were very marked. The pupils who before had been taught in the public school, among other things, that the earth was not created in six days, but in six indefinite periods, and that it gradually evolved, were in the church school instructed in the truth of God, and the influence was decidedly for the better. Among other interesting circumstances, he related the case of two boys who could not agree, and had become enemies. After considerable study over the matter, the teacher decided to have a season of prayer with them. He took them into a room by themselves, and, after a short talk about their ill-feeling toward each other, he had prayer with them. The result was a complete change of feeling on the part of the boys, and they became friends."