OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 41.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A NEW house of worship is being erected by the church at Grand Rapids, Mich.

ELDER C. W. OLDS has just closed meetings at Jaynesville, Wis., with ten converts.

ELDER W. S. SHREVE reports six additions at the close of meetings held at Excelsior, Wis.

BROTHER G. M. BROWN reports an addition of seven to the company at Rock Falls, Wis.

IN Copenhagen our brethren are establishing a bakery for the preparation of health foods.

AT St. Cloud, Minn., two candidates were baptized on the last quarterly meeting occasion.

THE brethren at Kalamazoo, Mich., have established a home for the fallen, with good prospects of success.

ELDER H. J. FARMAN reports four adult converts at New Glasgow, N. S., with others interested in the message.

ELDER J. G. WOOD reports the baptism of four persons at Cincinnati, September 11. Five were added to the church.

A CHURCH of twenty members was organized at Milburn, Neb., on the 14th ult., by Elders W. W. Stebbins and G. H. Smith.

ELDER J. M. ERIKSSON, who is laboring among the Swedes in the vicinity of Iron River, reports the baptism of five on the 19th ult.

A GOOD report of meetings held in Macksburg, Iowa, comes from Brethren H. M. J. Richards and G. A. Larson. Nineteen have accepted the faith, and they have a Sabbath-school of thirty members.

THE Working Men's Home in Chicago has recently moved into larger quarters, Nineteenth Street and Wabash Avenue, for the purpose of doing a more extended work.

AT Kanawha, W. Va., a few weeks ago, a man was baptized who received his first impressions of the truth from seeing our brethren in the chain-gang in Tennessee a few years since.

TWO FAMILIES have decided to accept the truth as presented by Brother J. W. Ingison, in meetings held in the Baptist Church at Philbrook, Minn. An increasing interest is also reported.

A SERIES of seven meetings recently held in Green Bay, Wis., by Elder Wm. Covert, resulted in the baptism of six persons, making thirty-seven additions to that church in the past six months.

AFTER meetings held at Baker City, Oregon, last month, by Elders H. W. Oliver and W. F. Martin, five persons were baptized. A good interest was left in order to attend camp-meetings at Union and Boise, Idaho.

THE latest report we have from the tent work at Fort Worth, Texas, which was continued after the camp-meeting, states that twenty-five had taken their stand for the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

IN his report to the Review, Elder A. J. Haysmer notes a company of sixty and a new church building at Waterloo, Jamaica Island. Elder C. A. Hall and Brother Humphrey had been holding meetings there about ten weeks.

THE Visitor says: "A successful street meeting was held in the slums of Cleveland, Sunday, September 26. A male quartet furnished music, and Elder J. W. Collie spoke. Excellent attention was given by the listeners."

AT Grand Island, Neb., on the 30th ult., Elders G. H. Smith and E. L. Stewart organized a church of twenty-five members. Two candidates were baptized in connection with the occasion, and the ordinances were celebrated.

THE Field Echoes, organ of the Michigan Tract Society, says: "The General Conference Association is arranging to start a new paper at Toronto, Ontario. It is to be a monthly magazine of thirty-two pages, about the size of Good Health, and will be devoted especially to the interests of religious liberty work. Elder Francis Hope, who has recently returned from England, will have charge of the editorial work."

FOUR have been added to the faith at Wausau, Wis., through the labors of a Bible worker. Two additions are reported at Knapp, and three at Aztalan, in the same State. At the latter place a small Sabbath-school has been organized by Brother S. G. Schwarz, and the work is to be continued by Brother John Maas.

THE Biblical institute at Frederikshavn, Denmark, which closed last month, was a source of much instruction and encouragement to all who attended. A part of the new school building there has been fitted up for baths and other treatments, which are already attracting the attention of the afflicted, as well as of physicians.

MONTANA MISSION FIELD has been organized into a State conference, with Elder C. N. Martin as president. The State tract society office is located at 1301 Eighth Avenue, Helena, Montana. Following are the officers: President, W. J. Stone; vice-president, C. N. Martin; secretary and treasurer, L. A. Gibson; State agent, C. E. Shafer.

AT the recent camp-meeting at Menomonie, Wis., it was decided to start a rescue mission in Milwaukee. Elder H. W. Reed has been given charge of the work, and Brethren W. N. Lake and R. J. Marsh, with their wives, are associated with him in the work. Sisters Alice Bramhall and Lenna Michelsen have been assigned to Bible work in the city. At the camp-meeting mentioned above nine were baptized, and as many more deferred the ordinance until returning to their home churches.

THE work still goes on under great difficulties in Asia Minor, the laborers being continually hindered in their efforts. Notwithstanding these impediments, such as arrest on petty pretexts, precious souls are being added to the Lord here and there. Strange as it may appear, Armenians seem to be the most persistent persecutors of those who proclaim the Gospel of the kingdom of God. They seem to have the National Reform idea of religious liberty, that is, liberty for themselves, but persecution for all who dissent from them.

ELDER WM. COVERT, president of Wisconsin Conference, writes to the Reporter concerning an interest awakened in Ashland and vicinity, by Elder T. B. Snow and Brother J. B. Locken. He says: "The Sabbath-school numbers more than thirty now, and at Deer Creek, ten miles away, is another Sabbath-school of twenty members. These brethren are using the SIGNS and the Scandinavian papers in opening up the work in the homes of the people, and they think these the best means they have ever found for this purpose. One can scarcely fail to get an interest started where our pioneer papers are regularly placed in the hands of the people."

THE enemy, as we learn from Perth Amboy, N. Y., Chronicle, stirred up quite an excitement in that place recently because a woman, previously unconverted, joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and was immersed against the wishes of her husband. He chose to desert her and her four children on that account. In consequence a number of sympathizers, some of whom were said to be saloon men, endeavored to stop the tent-meetings then being held by Elder J. C. Stevens and C. H. Keslake. Some of the tent ropes were cut, and threats of personal violence were uttered, but police protection was guaranteed, and the work went on. The local paper states, however, that the occurrence was "more or less exaggerated in the New York papers." But that is a feature of "enterprising journalism" in these last days, because the people want it so.

THE Worker, published at Minneapolis, Minn., gives the following extract from a letter from Brother W. E. Cornell, of New York: "One of our brethren in Alabama, who was a mail carrier, got discharged by the postmaster for 'insubordination' because he refused to report for duty on the Sabbath, when it was understood that he was to lay off that day. When the matter came to the attention of the Postmaster-General, that official from Washington ordered his immediate reinstatement, sending word that he had a wholesome regard for a man with the courage of his convictions, or words to that effect." To this the Worker adds: "Brother W. J. Newton, who has been carrying mail in Minneapolis for the past twenty-three years, has been called before the postmaster several times for refusing to work on the Sabbath; but the Lord has intervened in his behalf."