OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 17, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 20.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS

By Editor

At Papperwood, Humboldt Co., Cal., April 30, a new house of worship was dedicated.

The Health Food Company of St. Helena, Cal., recently shipped forty tons of food in one week.

During the State meeting held last month at Mount Vernon, Ohio, three persons were baptized.

April 30 six candidates were baptized in the Van Duzen River, Humboldt County, Cal., by Brother F. M. Burg. These were from the vicinity of Rhonerville.

The Quarter-centennial Number of the Signs is still being sold with success by brethren and sisters who realize that its contents are just as important to-day as they were when the paper was first issued.

On Green River, Wyoming, Brother O. S. Ferren reports holding meetings in a private house, twenty-five miles from a railroad and ten miles from a post-office. After one week's work he left five persons keeping the Sabbath "according to the commandment," and had baptized two heads of families.

In April 1897, Brother G. T. Kerr and wife, who had been laboring some time in the Gold Coast country, Africa, were obliged to leave on account of failing health. Since then they have been connected with the sanitarium at Claremont, South Africa, and Brother Kerr contemplates returning to the Gold Coast in August. In reporting to the Review, he notes the fact that in his two years' connection with the Claremont Sanitarium he has seen it "grow to more than three times its original size." Also that it is "patronized by all classes, from members of parliament to the humble huckster."

The May number of the Life Boat is a special "Prisoner's Number," and as for interesting narrative is a sterling witness to the adage that "truth is stranger than fiction." And its testimony to the efficacy of the Gospel in lifting up the fallen is of the most practical nature. Persons who are skeptical in regard to the utility of prison missionary work, or who desire a first-class document to put into the hands of prisoners, should not fail to procure this number of the Life Boat. The price of this special number is only $1.00 per hundred. Price, per year, monthly, 25 cents. Address, 1926 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill., or your State tract society.

The Kansas Tract Society secretary gives this extract from an aged brother's experience in selling the Resurrection Number of the Signs: "I am almost ashamed that I had no more faith. I thought I might sell a few papers in ——, so started out with twenty to canvass the town. This is what astonished me. I sold a paper in every house, and in some houses sold two or three. No, not I, but the Lord. I did the delivering. I took a little walk into the country to-day; sold a paper to every family. I wish I had fifty more, so I could go to ——. Can't you send them quick?" Many of our brethren and sisters have yet to learn that success in selling our papers is a matter of faith, and not merely of talent or human aptitude.

Another missionary journal, the Life Line, has been started by one of our missions. This one is issued from the Gospel Medical Mission in Topeka, Kansas; monthly, 25 cents a year. It gives this very encouraging account of the work of the mission: "There are between 150 and 160 persons that daily come to the home for their meals, which are prepared in a healthful way. From 18 to 25 come for lodging every night, and for 10 and 15 cents get a nice clean bed. Every one that in any way is led to our mission, leaves with the impression that all is done for Christ; and thus the place, tho only a few months old, is well known throughout the city, yes, even throughout the State. It would do your soul good to be here in the evening, and see what the Lord will and can do for publicans, sinners, drunkards, and harlots."