OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 43.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE church at Boise, Idaho, has received twenty-one members since last May.

ELDER W. S. SHREVE reports the baptism of three candidates at Debello, Wis.

ELDER S. S. SHROCK has been called from Ohio to engage in labor among the German population of Philadelphia.

A GERMAN church was organized at Sherwood, Ohio, on the 20th ult., by Elders S. S. Shrock and R. C. Porter.

AT the last quarterly meeting of the church in Toronto, Ont., an addition of nine to the membership was reported.

THE West Side members of the church in Cleveland, Ohio, have formed a separate organization. In this way the cause is better represented in that large city.

AT the late meeting of the New York Conference, held at Syracuse, six new churches were added. At the same meeting Brethren A. R. Hyatt and G. R. Lesch were ordained to the Gospel ministry.

THE local camp-meeting at Montrose, Colo., created such a manifest interest that Elders J. E. Leland and B. W. Marsh continued services after the general meeting closed. Previous to the close of the camp-meeting eight persons were baptized.

THE little pamphlet issued a short time ago by Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, entitled "How the Sabbath Came to Me," has already reached a circulation of over 200,000 copies, and is doing much to arouse an interest in this important question. Forty-eight pp.; price, $1.50 per 100.

DURING the recent camp-meeting at Fremont, Neb., five candidates were baptized; a number of persons took instruction in book-selling, and will engage in that work; the regular conference business was attended to, and Brother E. L. Stewart was ordained to the Gospel ministry.

OCTOBER 3, four persons were baptized at Iowa City, Iowa, and since that date three more have been added. Still others were expected to go forward at the time of this report, as a good interest was manifested in meetings conducted by Elder W. B. Everhart and Brother R. H. Habenicht.

THE Minnesota Worker gives this interesting item: "For several years past Sister A. E. Ellis, of Dodge Center, Minn., has used a club of 100 SIGNS OF THE TIMES in missionary work. The efficiency of this is shown by the fact that seventy-five persons have accepted the truth during the past three years through this means." There are certainly many others who might do a similar work, if there were first a willing mind, and confidence in the means which the Lord has often endorsed.

ELDER D. H. LAMSON, whose long years of service in the cause have made his name familiar throughout the American field, died, at Hillsdale, Mich., October 13, of pneumonia. His field of labor had been mostly in Michigan, and he was in times past a frequent contributor to our church paper, the Review and Herald.

Echoes from the Field, organ of the Colorado Conference, says, "We are pleased to hear that new church buildings have lately been erected in Cripple Creek and Florence." It also says, "We learn from a brother at Colorado Springs that a tabernacle is being constructed there for a meeting-place, and will soon be ready for occupancy."

THE first camp-meeting ever held in New South Wales, Australia, was at Sydney, October 14-25. Another meeting is appointed for Melbourne, Victoria, from the 18th to the 29th of the present month. It is expected that at this meeting arrangements will be completed for starting the medical work in Melbourne, and that a sanitarium will be opened, which will be a training-school for medical missionaries for the Australasian field.

SCHOOLS OF HEALTH are being held in Cleveland, Ohio, under the supervision of Brother W. C. Wales. Dr. Abbie Winegar, Miss Jean Whitney, and Mrs. Nuding, of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, are assisting in the work. The Visitor says, "A most encouraging school was held before the Sorosis, one of the most exclusive societies of ladies in the city." It also states that a school has been opened in Music Hall for the public.

FROM the report of Elder J. E. Fulton, of Fiji, in a late Review, we take the following item of interest: "We are thankful for the boat which was lately built for us. This will be a useful auxiliary in our work. Remember, Fiji is not one island, but eighty inhabited islands. When this fact is considered, it is readily seen how necessary a boat is to our work. We have named our boat the 'Loughborough.' This little craft is thirty feet long and ten feet beam, with mainsail and jib, decked all over with a good-sized hatchway, which may be partly or altogether opened, at pleasure. The builder is a practical man, and took pains to make the boat strong as well as nice in appearance. We took a trip in it lately, and had a very interesting and profitable time among the natives. We went some distance from Suva, among a better class of Fijians, who see fewer white people, and are therefore less acquainted with the evils of Europeans."

THE Fond du Lac, Wis., Daily Reporter notices our new mission at Milwaukee as follows:—

"The Seventh-day Adventists have opened Rescue Mission quarters at Milwaukee in the building at Reed and Oregon Streets, where they have leased five floors for five years. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Marsh, of Fond du Lac, and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lake will have charge of the institution. The mission is opened by the National Conference of the Adventists and there will be conducted in connection with the mission a cobbler's department, an employment bureau, in which no charges will be made, a restaurant, and a lodging-house. There will be baths and rooms for the sick, and about 100 cots on the third floor for lodgers. The mission will be conducted on an extensive scale. . . . In an interview with Mr. Lake, he said: 'The employment bureau will be a regular department, but we do not ask a cent either of the man who is furnished work or the employer. We first give the applicant a bath, then we feed him and give him a bed. The question will not be, Have you ten or fifteen cents? If he has a little money to help us out, well and good; if not, it makes no difference. We shall have a cobbler's department, to do light patching or half-soling on old shoes, so as to make them fit for use. We shall have a coal and wood department, where both commodities will be sold in small quantities. We shall have daily religious meetings and also meetings on Sunday afternoon. The mission will be open day and night, watchmen being in charge all the while, so that we may not miss any one who may apply for food or shelter.'"