OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 14.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

BROTHER H. P. HOLSER is taking steps to open the work in Palestine.

A HOUSE of worship is being erected by the brethren at Scotia, Humboldt County, Cal.

THE addition of five to our ranks at La Grande, Wash., is reported by Brother F. W. Hiddleson.

SUNDAY evening, March 26, four persons were baptized in San Francisco by Brother E. E. Andross.

REPORTS from Selma and Arroyo Grande, Cal., say that the Quarter-Centennial SIGNS is still being sold in those vicinities.

AT Kingston, Jamaica, Sister F. I. Richardson holds weekly meetings with the women, which are fraught with interest and profit.

SINCE the first of last September, Battle Creek (Mich.) College has sent out eighty-four young people as self-supporting missionaries.

A BROTHER in Germany who will not do military duty because of the Sabbath is at the present time confined in the darkest dungeon three days every week.

ON Sunday evening, March 26, eight persons were baptized in the church in this city by Brother J. W. Bagby. Two of the number have united with the church in Alameda.

MEETINGS at Hilgard, Wash., had, when last reported to the Reaper, resulted in eight taking their stand for the truth. The meetings are conducted by Brother W. C. Young.

BROTHER E. E. ANDROSS, who has been assigned to the work in England, left San Francisco March 28, expecting to join the company of laborers who go to that field from the eastern side of the continent. A farewell service was held in the Laguna Street Church, San Francisco, the evening previous.

A REPORT concerning the work of Brethren G. W. Rine and H. H. Dexter at Pacific Grove, Cal., says that they had been obliged to secure a larger meeting place than that in which they began their effort in that place.

THE March number of the Battle Creek College magazine, entitled Training School Advocate, is full of treasure gems on the subject which it advocates. Monthly; price, 25 cents a year, which is merely nominal.

THE new officers of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, Battle Creek, Mich., are as follows: President and general manager, W. C. Sisley; vice-president, S. H. Lane; treasurer, C. D. Rhodes; secretary, U. Smith; superintendent, J. I. Gibson; auditor, L. McCoy.

THE Helping Hand Mission at St. Paul, Minn., is bearing visible as well as prospective fruit. A report in the Worker of March 15 notes the baptism of three converts. "The meals furnished average about 2,000 per week, and from 30 to 35 beds are occupied each night. The attendance at the Gospel meetings each evening is very good."

AT the late session of the General Conference the Atlantic Conference was divided. A new conference was formed, to be known as the Chesapeake Conference, which will include Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Delaware, with Elder K. C. Russell as president. The Atlantic Conference will, when all arrangements are completed, simply include Greater New York City and the State of New Jersey.

BROTHER S. THURSTON writes from Stockton, Cal., under date of March 19: "The work here seems favorable for additions to the church. Sister Fish has been doing a good work, and we are pleased with the outlook. I sent an item some time ago regarding our work in Nevada. As the result of work by Brother J. S. Harmon and myself at Fallons, I baptized twenty-two candidates in Carson River. They united with the St. Clair church."