Our Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 27, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 33.

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Our Work and Workers

By Editor

AT the Massachusetts camp-meeting forty-one were baptized.

IN Wieburg, Finland, thirty have commenced to obey the message.

SUNDAY, July 14, six souls were buried in baptism at Vernon, Vermont.

FIVE at Pearl Lagoon, Nicaragua, have received baptism, and four at Yulu.

SEVEN at Cristobal, Canal Zone, have been baptized, and a new chapel dedicated.

SIX Germans have recently received baptism at Buffalo, New York, and four others at Elmira.

SEVEN were baptized in the ocean at Kagoshima, Japan, the fruits of a tent mission in that city.

AT the last session of the Norway Conference twenty-five persons identified themselves with us.

BAPTISM was administered to three believers in Murcia, Spain, recently, and to three at Cartagena.

EIGHT or ten persons in Buenos Aires, Argentina, have identified themselves with us and are awaiting baptism.

FROM the interior of Armenia comes news of twelve persons' having lately commenced to obey the truth.

AT Rhyndaston, Tasmania, seven adults and seven children are witnessing to the truth as a result of a tent effort at that place.

TWELVE or more at Grey Lynn Mission, New Zealand, have expressed their decision to obey God in keeping all His commandments.

AT Antigua, West Indies, eight have been baptized, five at Kingston, and twenty-one at St. Thomas are preparing for baptism.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty-five has been organized at Nampa, Idaho, where three have recently identified themselves with this people.

FIFTEEN persons in Monterey, Nuevo Leon, have covenanted to keep the commandments, and there are several applicants for baptism.

A REPORT from Italy states that nine persons at Gravina, Bari, have been baptized, and seven more at Genoa and Montaldo are to be baptized.

AT Chang-Sha, Hunan, China, nine candidates were recently baptized. At the close of a general meeting in Honan, thirty-two persons were baptized.

BAPTISM has been administered to five at Dexter, Maine, and seven new members have been added to the Dyer Brook church. Nine converts are reported at Fort Fairfield.

WE note that the work is progressing encouragingly in Batavia. A recent report from there states that nine or ten earnest souls are ready for baptism, and several more are obeying the truth.

AT Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, seven have taken their stand for the truth. Five at Bendigo, Victoria, have signified their intention to walk in the ways of God's commandments, and a church building has been dedicated.

THREE patients of the Portland, Oregon, sanitarium have accepted the truth, seven persons at Marshfield, four have been baptized at Brownsboro, and four at Ashland. Since January 1 twenty-four have been added to the membership at Medford.

NEWS comes from Russia of a village where more than two hundred persons are observing the commandments. In another place twenty-six have been baptized, and a church of over thirty members organized. The past year the Russian Union has shown a gain of 794 members.

FOUR at Granite Falls, Washington, have been baptized, two at Snohomish, three at Washougal, three have been added to the church at Colville, and three at Spokane. Fifty-one were baptized at the close of the North Yakima camp-meeting. During the past year twenty-nine have been added to the Wenatchee church.

FROM the Somabula Mission, Rhodesia, South Africa, comes the report of the baptism of twenty-one persons who have renounced heathenism and accepted Christ; seven at the Que Que school near Gwelo; a company of twenty-five at the Tsungwesi Mission awaiting baptism; five new converts in Natal, and seven at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. Two of the latter are Salvation Army officers, who were recently baptized. At the Bloemfontein camp-meeting three new churches were admitted into conference fellowship.