Our Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 3, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 47.

Read the full edition

Our Work and Workers

By Editor

(Summarized from our exchanges)

Foreign

SIX in Padang, Sumatra, have received baptism.

ONE church in West Africa has been dedicated.

FORTY-TWO in North Central China have been baptized.

FOUR more conversions are reported in the Armenian Mission Field.

A CHURCH of sixteen members has been organized in Panama City, Canal Zone.

SIXTY-NINE persons have been added to our church-membership in Chile during the past year.

PASTOR G. W. CAVINESS tells of the baptism of seventeen individuals at Monterey, Mexico.

IN Queensland, Australia, twenty-four have been baptized, and thirty-one have yielded to the message.

IN Barcelona, Spain, ten have taken their stand on the side of truth, and in Cartagena three have been baptized.

WE learn of the organization of the first church in Ecuador, in Quito, its capital, with a membership of twelve.

THE rite of baptism has been administered to ten converts in Southern Italy, and a church organization effected.

A NEW sanitarium at Stanborough Park, Watford, England, has been erected, and was recently opened and dedicated.

A REPORT from Finland states that about seventy have been added to our church there as the result of the last season’s work.

A REPORT from New Zealand states that eleven have been baptized, and thirty others have identified themselves with the message.

IN South Australia sixteen persons have received baptism, and thirty-six other converts are reported. One church has been organized and one Sabbath-school.

DURING the first eight months of the year, fifty-three persons united with our churches in the vicinity of London, England, and about fifty others have begun to walk in the light of the message. The net gain in the British Union for the last quarter was 95.

TWO churches in Java have been dedicated, and baptism has been administered to twelve persons. Ten at Singapore, Straits Settlements, have received baptism; and a third of the population of Lord Howe Island have yielded allegiance to the truth.

WE note that twenty-eight individuals in South Africa have recently been baptized, and there are ninety-eight candidates for baptism in the various mission schools. One Sabbath-school has been organized, and at King William’s Town six more have decided to cast in their lot with God’s remnant people.

IN Korea, during the last year, over one hundred persons have received this rite. A report from Keizan, Korea, states that since the inception of the truth there about a year ago, a church of thirty-seven baptized members has been raised up, and a Sabbath-school of over fifty, besides quite a number who are studying.

To Mission Fields

BROTHER FRANK F. MILLS recently sailed from San Francisco for Korea, where he will act as superintendent for the new Korean printing-office, in Seoul. Brother Frank Raley sailed the first week in August for Jamaica, where he will work in the West Indian Union Conference office at Riversdale. On August

27, Brother S. G. White and wife, of California, sailed from Seattle, Washington, for Shanghai, to join the missionary staff in China. W. Seiler and wife and Brother H. Palm sailed from Hamburg, August 29, for the Victoria Nyanza Mission, Africa; and Brother E. B. Phillips joined the same boat at Southampton, en route to the British East African Mission Field.