p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 1, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 31.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

FOUR persons from Camden, N. J., were recently baptized at Philadelphia.

FOUR added to the church at Minneapolis, Minn., at last communion service, is the report of Brother H. F. Phelps.

THE wife of Brother R. A. Underwood, president of Pennsylvania Conference, died at the family home in Mesopotamia, O., on the 2d inst.

THE baptism of six young people at Ruthven, Iowa, by Brother C. T. Adams, is noted in the Worker's Bulletin, by Sister Mary B. Hansen.

TENT-MEETINGS in the interest of the Scandinavians are being conducted at Kane, Pa., by Brother Meleen, assisted by Charles and Silma Johnson.

A POSTAL card from Brother W. S. Dann notes the baptism of forty-six candidates at Omaha, Neb., June 17, with a dozen more to follow a week later.

FROM the Missionary Visitor we learn that on the 5th inst., the Portland (Oregon) Sanitarium and Benevolent Association was incorporated with W. T. Knox, G. E. Tyszkiewics, H. W. Decker, W. R. Simmons, M.D., Mrs. J. Gotzian, A. Q. Shryock, M.D., and L. I. Stiles as incorporators. W. R. Simmons, M.D., was chosen president and superintendent; L. I. Stiles, secretary; and W. W. Sharp, treasurer.

SISTER D. A. FITCH, of Burlington, Iowa, has answered a call from the Medical Missionary Board to connect with the sanitarium at Guadalajara, Mexico.

AT the recent local camp-meeting at Frazee, Minn., six candidates were baptized. A series of tent-meetings is being carried on since the meeting.

THE Texas Reporter says: "It will be remembered that Brother Bahler took 5,000 copies of the Quarter-Centennial SIGNS. He has kept a careful record of the time required to sell these papers, and has just sent us the result. It took Brother Bahler and his daughter Grace 162 hours and 10 minutes to sell the 5,000. This, figured into days of 10 hours each, would give 16 days and a quarter."

A LETTER in Echoes from the Field, from Brother M. A. Altman, of Liverpool, England, says: "Again the season for tent work has come, and this time it has brought to us a nice new tent fresh from the manufacturers in Battle Creek. Its dimensions are 40x60 feet, and can also be pitched as a 40-foot round tent. Brother E. E. Andross has removed to Birmingham, and Brother Harry Armstrong and family have come to assist us in the work here."

The Keystone Gleaner, published at Williamsport, Pa., says in its issue of July 12: "The missionary boat, Sentinel, which is usually found supplying the seamen in and about New York Harbor with literature, came to Philadelphia during the camp-meeting. Combining business with pleasure, Captain Johnson and wife disposed of a large number of books and papers on board the vessels in the Delaware River, and their cruise in Pennsylvania waters was both pleasant and profitable."

IN Yazoo City, Miss., a house-to-house work is in progress among the colored people, in giving Bible-readings and teaching them to read the Bible for themselves. Many can now read, who, when the place was entered, did not know their letters. Reading and history have been taught them from "Christ Our Saviour," "Patriarchs and Prophets," the Bible, and other similar books. A goodly number have taken a stand for the truth, and many are investigating with deep interest. A Sabbath-school has been organized with a membership of fifty-seven, and on Sunday the chapel is filled for both the Sunday-school and the preaching service.

BROTHER F. R. RICHARDS has united his efforts in self-supporting Gospel mission work with Brother D. P. Ziegler and his company at Springfield, Mo. He writes: "This is a city of some 35,000 inhabitants. We conduct services in a large room, where we also serve meals. We plan to hold meetings every evening, also Sabbath-school every Sabbath, in connection with other services. We also divide our working force and hold house-to-house meetings and distribute literature." Amongst other workers he mentions the names of Mrs. Ziegler; Brother Fred Lane, of Topeka, Kansas; and Sister Annie Nordlind, a trained nurse from Battle Creek, Mich. In connection with this mission is published a monthly paper entitled The Life Line, at 25 cents a year. This important enterprise is doing good, and is worthy of encouragement.