OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 47.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

At the last quarterly meeting of the church at Santa Ana, Cal., eight members were added.

In the Reporter we note reference to church schools at Amery, Bloomville, and Stevens Point, Wis.

A CHURCH of nineteen members has been organized at Rossland, B. C., by Brother W. W. Steward.

THE president of Upper Columbia Conference reports $2,000 on hand toward the work of opening a mission in China.

WOULD the person who sends the Signs of the Times to G. Clurry, blacksmith, Sledmore, Yorkshire, England, change his address to Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, England?

Two MEMBERS added to the church at Ashland and two to the church at Sanborn, Wis., are reported by Brother N. P. Neilsen.

A GENERAL meeting for General Conference district No. 1 is to be held at South Lancaster, Mass., November 28 to December 10.

IT has been recommended by the General Conference Committee that Brother A. F. Ballenger make the Chesapeake Conference his field of labor.

THE Reaper reports that Walla Walla College has recently supplied eight teachers for church schools, and four others are to be sent out in the near future.

SINCE August 2 Sister Anna Jensen reports ninety orders for the Signs at Green Bay, Wis. She now has one hundred families reading the paper in that city.

CHURCH schools are in operation or about to be opened at the following places in California: Centralia, Crystal Springs, Escondido, Fresno, Garden Grove, Hanford, Napa, San Francisco, San Jose, and San Pasqual.

THE organization of a church of twenty-three members at Pepperwood, Humboldt County, Cal., is reported by Brother N. C. McClure. The company had built a new house of worship previous to the organization.

ON the 1st inst. Brother W. L. H. Baker and family sailed from San Francisco, on the steamer Moana, for Australia. They have formerly spent several years in the Southern Continent, but have been visiting the past summer at Grinnell, Iowa, Brother Baker's old home. On the same steamer were Mrs. E. H. Gates and two daughters, en route to Sydney, N. S. W.; also Professor Paap and wife, who go from Healdsburg College to join the teaching force at Avondale Industrial Academy, N. S. W.; and Mrs. Coril, who is on the way to join her husband in New Zealand.

THE HARVEST NUMBER.

ONE of our correspondents writes: "We have 600 of Harvest Signs. They are the finest in every way that have ever been published." That is what everybody who sees it says.

Another says: "I can not see why the special numbers sold at 10 cents should not be a blessing and aid the taking of subscriptions in all cases." And so it will, we are sure. It will do much good in many directions.

A third says: "We are not saying much to you, but we are working as hard as we can for the Signs. You will doubtless hear from us again very soon in the way of a large order for this place. We are organizing the churches into working societies, and expect to see great things accomplished."

What may we not expect when all our churches become working societies? Many of them are becoming such, and the Lord is richly blessing them. What, dear reader, are you doing in the Master's vineyard?

TESTIMONIAL FROM EXPERIENCE.

EXPERIENCE is better than unsupported theory. Brother George W. Reaser, president of Upper Columbia Conference, gives in the Reaper some results of a proper use of our "pioneer missionary paper," the Signs of the Times. Speaking of its use in that conference, he says:—

"It is impossible to estimate the amount of good that was accomplished in the circulation of the Quarter-Centennial number. Many have accepted the truth as the visible results of the work in which nearly all of our people engaged so heartily about a year ago; but what the ultimate results will be, eternity alone will tell. One of the encouraging features of that movement was a marked increase in the regular yearly subscriptions to the Signs of the Times, even to five hundred per cent. above the number of subscriptions taken during the corresponding period of the previous year. I am confident that the World's Harvest number will be the best copy of our missionary paper, in every respect, ever published, and that no one will be disappointed either in the character of the work or in the contents. One great object in getting out these special issues of the Signs is to furnish something with which all our people can work, for we are convinced that many will enter the work permanently if once they are started, and the Signs is the best thing that we know of with which to start. It is certain that no issue of the paper can be better for that, and for any and all purposes, than the forthcoming World's Harvest number."

PERIODICALS WANTED.

CLEAN copies of any of our denominational papers and tracts, for missionary work. Address, post-paid, N. E. Moore, 1200 Oak Grove Street, Fort Worth, Texas.