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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 6, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 23.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A CHURCH of thirteen members has been organized at Phillipsburg, Pa., by Brother C. Meleen.
THE addition of eight members to the church at Enyart, Mo., is reported to the Record by Brother H. K. Willis.
ON the 6th inst. four persons were baptized at Lake Eunice, Minn. One other candidate was unavoidably absent.
AT a general meeting recently held at Cliff Island, Me., eight persons were baptized, and twelve members were added to the church at that place.
ON the 5th inst. Brother M. H. Gregory baptized seven persons at McLoud, O. T. He also reports the baptism of two candidates at Claremore.
TWO members were added, by baptism, to the Swedish Church at Elm Dale, Minn., at a recent ordinance service conducted by Brother F. Johnson.
AT Shunk, Pa., where Brother Lee S. Wheeler had labored about three weeks, ten persons were recently baptized. A number of others had accepted the message borne, but deferred baptism to a future occasion.
ON the 6th ult. the new educational institution known as Woodland Academy, at Bethel, Wood Co., Wis., was dedicated. There was a very large attendance, some coming in wagons a distance of fifty miles.
BROTHER C. H. JONES, president of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., left Oakland, Cal., on the evening of the 20th inst., for Portland, Oregon, and Walla Walla, Wash., to attend the camp-meetings at those places.
THE Keystone Gleaner says: "During the past six months Brother L. Schmidt, a canvasser, working in this State [Pennsylvania] and Western New York, has taken more than 300 subscriptions for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, besides selling from 200 to 400 each week."
A REPORT from Brother E. A. Merrell, of Philadelphia, notes the baptism of fifteen persons a few weeks ago, and an addition of eighteen to the church. He adds that the work of the Lord is being greatly blessed in that city; that many people are asking for Bible-readings at their homes.
UNDER the head of "Good News," the Oklahoma Gleaner says: "The Lord has worked for His cause in Oklahoma City. The people have shown how much they want the sanitarium by going down into their pockets and raising the money to buy the site. It is a beautiful hill in the north part of the city. The owner made a heavy donation. The site contains sixty lots that are worth at present prices $100 each, but he gets less than half of that in cash. A few men gave $100 each; many gave $50. All of this was made up without our people giving one dollar. The city also gives free water, free sewer, and lights the grounds with electricity." Brother Butler is ready with the means to make things move.
But the way is open for others to have a part in this great and good work. Dr. Kellogg has headed the list, with a donation of $1,000 in health foods, which will sell very fast."
BROTHER D. NETTLETON, who recently went to the Dakota Conference to labor, has been holding meetings near Brown Valley, close to the Minnesota line. He finds that our canvassers have left a good impression, and a good interest to hear the truth. At the time of his report to the Worker, he had baptized four candidates, and some others had decided to obey the Word.
CONCERNING the work in Ontario, Brother F. D. Starr writes: "I have recently held meetings with our churches at St. Thomas, London, Brantford, Hamilton, Hagersville, Toronto, Southwold, and other points. At Hagersville and Southwold we have companies of Indian Sabbath-keepers. Near Shannonville an interest is also being awakened among the Indians. Also at Ingersoll a good work is being done."
THE new board of directors of Healdsburg (Cal.) College have recommended that the educational board of California Conference select a superintendent of church-school work, whose duty it shall be to organize and promote church schools; also to act as field agent to represent the interests of the college. The board also decided to hold a summer institute for the benefit of church-school teachers. A further decision was "that a paper be published by the college, which will serve as a medium to more thoroughly organize and establish the principles of Christian education in the home and in the church schools."
A REPORT in the Indicator, from Brother S. B. Whitney, says that ten are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of meetings held at Canastota, N. Y. The report further says: "In anticipation of the summer's campaign, as our short-term subscriptions for the SIGNS have expired, long-term subscriptions have been solicited, and in most cases, successfully. Including these, the number of SIGNS in the aggregate which have been circulated by actual subscriptions, amounts to about three thousand. In addition to these, many have been given to the poor, and a large number have been taken from the rack in the depot."
OUR work is essentially an educational work. Being such, the admonition of the apostle to Timothy is recognized as especially applicable to it: "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will increase unto more ungodliness:"
"Foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." This is the character and the purpose of the educational work we are aiming to do,—a work that will stand the fire; for "every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." 1 Cor. 3:13.
ACCORDING to the report of the treasurer of the Foreign Mission Board, the donations to missions from all sources are on the increase, and this is especially so of the first-day offerings. One reason for this is that many of our people have adopted the plan of giving ten cents per week to this fund, and the result has been so gratifying that this systematic plan of making donations is presented to our people as a sure means of relieving the Foreign Mission Board of their financial embarrassment, and giving the laborers the wages due them. It is asserted that the dime-a-week plan, if faithfully lived up to, will do away with the many calls made for special necessities. It is not expected, however, that this will be enough for foreign aggressive work, or that those who are able to do more will be limited by the plan. There is danger that some who ought to make larger donations, will feel that, having given their dime a week, their duty is done. The real value of such a plan is that it encourages the regular donation of a sum within the reach of nearly all, and in the aggregate gives a fund on which the Foreign Mission Board can, at all times, rely.