OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Oct 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 41.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A CHURCH school has been started at Onawa, Iowa, for a term of five months.

AT our school at Cooranbong, N. S. W., there are thirty-two students from New Zealand.

AT Sharps, Iowa, September 9, three candidates were baptized by Brother C. A. Washburn.

FOUR converts are reported by Brother J. S. Hart, who is conducting meetings at Quimby, Iowa.

THE brethren in Louisville, Ky., are contemplating the institution of a Helping Hand Mission and a church school.

TWO ACCESSIONS to the faith are reported in Harriman, Tenn., as a result of missionary work by M. E. Durkee.

SEPTEMBER 7 nine persons were baptized in Baltimore, Md., by Brother K. C. Russell, president of Chesapeake Conference.

THE California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association is planning to open a sanitarium in Los Angeles at an early date.

THE camp-meeting at Santa Rosa, Cal., will be held from October 5 to 15, and the meeting at Visalia from October 26 to November 5.

AT the recent session of the Michigan Conference a resolution was passed authorizing the executive committee to select one or more men with their families for foreign mission fields, and that they be paid from the tithes of the conference.

MICHIGAN CONFERENCE has re-elected J. D. Gowell as president; J. S. Hall, secretary; and Review and Herald Publishing Co., treasurer.

THE annual session of the Atlantic Conference will be held at Jersey City November 7-12. There will be no camp-meeting in connection with the conference this season.

THE brethren in Alameda, Cal., are preparing to erect a new house of worship, the recent tent meetings having considerably strengthened the church numerically; and, we trust, spiritually.

IN connection with the week's camp-meeting at Cherokee, Iowa, fifteen candidates were baptized. The work was continued after the camp-meeting, by Brethren J. S. Hart, Thos. Jeys, and Arthur McClintock.

AT Biloxi, Miss., three persons were recently added to the church, and the use of a comfortable house of worship was secured free of charge, by the efforts of Brother Frank Smoot, who went out for a week from New Orleans.

THE Montana Bivouac of September 15 says: "Brother G. E. Hollister passed through Helena the 13th, on his way, by team, from Ontario, Canada, to his home in Santa Rosa, Cal. He is doing colporter work, scattering seeds of truth by the way."

TWENTY persons were baptized during the camp-meeting at Clear Lake, Wis. They were baptized in the lake by Brother J. C. Mikkelsen. Owing to the manifest interest awakened, the meeting tent was left, with Brethren N. P. Neilson and J. B. Locken in charge, in order to continue the work for a time.

THAT there is a demand for such a paper as the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is indicated in many ways. We note that a brother in Louisville, Ky., who is sixty-five years old and almost blind, sells about eighty-five copies every day, besides some books. So writes Sister Mollie R. Long to the Workers' Bulletin.

AT the recent annual meeting of the Maine Tract Society, the following expression was voted in regard to this journal:—

"WHEREAS, The Lord says that He would have the entire church devising ways and means whereby high and low, rich and poor, may hear the message of truth, and whereas no easier way, perhaps, was ever devised than the selling of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, therefore we recommend that our people increase their diligence in the circulation of that good paper."

AT the close of an ordination service at the recent camp-meeting at Ionia, Mich., Brother R. J. Lawrence took occasion to make some appropriate remarks. Of his remarks Brother A. J. Breed says, in the Review: "He said that sixty-three years ago that solemn ordinance was performed by the Baptists, ordaining and setting him apart for the work of a Gospel minister. Forty-two years ago this service, performed by the Seventh-day Adventists, set him apart to preach the third angel's message. As he stood upon the rostrum, and spoke of some events connected with the work, it seemed as if we were actually in the presence of a patriarch. He felt thankful that God is calling young men, and laying upon them the burdens that have been borne by older ones. It was a relief, he said, to see these young men coming forward to take up the work so necessary for this time."

OF the Maine camp-meeting the Vineyard says: "It was a series of miracles from beginning to end—miracles of conversion and miracles of physical healing, all through the power of redeeming love. Brother A. F. Ballenger had a special message for the people, and it brought joy to many a heart, for it was a proclamation of the keeping power which comes through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The steps to obtain this blessing were made so simple, so plain, and so definite that even the children could understand them. Brother Prescott, formerly from North Berwick, Maine, related wonderful cases of healing in answer to prayer. During special seasons of prayer twenty or thirty individuals claimed healing by faith. Spectacles were laid aside as complete vision was restored, and one crippled by disease discarded her crutches and went home rejoicing. About forty were baptized in the Androscoggin River. It is a glorious day in the church of God when the people move forward by faith and claim the promises."

"The Seventh-day Adventists and Sabbath Observance. Is the Observance of the Seventh Day Binding upon Christians?" by Dr. J. B. Thompson, is a reply to "A Present-day Delusion," by Henry Varley. Price, five cents. Address: Dr. J. B. Thompson, 2 Burrough Place, corner Hollis Street, Boston, Mass.