p. 11 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jan 17, 1900

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A NEW church building is being erected at Cortland, Neb.

THE baptism of five persons at Jamestown, N. Y., is reported by Brother J. B. Stow.

SPEAKING of Pitkin, Colo., Brother J. M. Rees says, "We have the only church organization in the town."

SIX adherents to the commandments of God are noted as the result of labor in Columbus Junction, Iowa, by Brethren E. H. Adams and U. P. Long.

THERE will be a meeting of Colorado Conference and Tract Society at Canon City, beginning on the 24th inst. and closing on the 29th. This will be an adjourned meeting.

MEETINGS held at Maywood, Neb., by Brother Victor Thompson, have resulted in the baptism of three candidates. Others awaited another opportunity, on account of inclement weather.

THE Grand Rapids, Mich., Democrat gave an extended account of the dedication of our new house of worship in that city a few weeks ago. The dedicatory address was delivered by Prof. J. G. Lamson, of Cedar Lake Academy.

OF the medical work and nurses' training institute at Redhill, Eng., Dr. Lauretta Kress writes to the Missionary Worker: "We have had a full supply of patients who appreciate our work in a remarkable manner. Our first three patients were Church of England clergymen, who pronounced everything excellent, and went away benefited and very thankful for all they received. Our next three patients to fill these places were three atheists, who believed not in God or Christ. They have been led to acknowledge that God is here, and have softened to the extent that the Bible is becoming less obnoxious to them. They acknowledge that the workers here are Christians, and we hope the good seed sown will bring a harvest in their souls. We have every reason to believe that God is with this work. Our neighbors are being interested in our lectures."

ONE sister has secured customers for 150 copies of the Signs, to be delivered regularly in Green Bay, Wis. Fruit of this work is already seen, and has been supplemented by Christian help work done by our people for the poor. Any truly Christian effort always results that way. Of our Master's labors it was said, "The poor have the Gospel preached unto them," and He supplemented this by going about doing good.

TWO of the workers in the Christian Help Mission, Omaha, Neb., recently drove over into Iowa to get some donations of produce that had been promised. The result was that the people filled their wagon so full of vegetables and corn that they could take no more. Brother E. C. Cushman, reporting to Sunshine, says: "We have made five trips into the country, and have always been blessed with the temporal necessities."

BROTHER H. P. HOLSER has gone to Egypt to open up the work in the land of the ancient Pharaohs. When last heard from he was at Helouan, with his family. Surely the Lord has yet a people in Egypt who need to be called out and made acquainted with His law. We believe that I AM has sent Brother Holser to this field, and that the Lord is saying to him, as He said to Moses, "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."

UNDER date of December 17, Brethren D. Nettleton and L. J. Burgess write to the Minnesota Worker: "We have spent another very pleasant and profitable week in circulating the special issue of the Signs of the Times. In answer to our prayer, God has given favor with the people, and over 500 copies were sold during the week. It means work early and late, tho. We get out early in the morning, often finding the people at the breakfast table, and continue to work until the people begin to prepare for bed."

IN a little town in West Virginia a church school was started with only five pupils. At first it was a source of amusement to the neighbors and others who are not of our faith, but by perseverance the school has been carried on, and has been growing in favor, until now it numbers twenty-two pupils. The public school board in the place desires to employ the teacher to teach in the public school there next term, so says the Chesapeake News. It is doubtful if the teacher could do as much good in a public school as in the more humble church school; for the reason that the feature which calls for a church school, and makes it a success, would of necessity be ruled out of any public school.

BROTHER R. T. NASH, who, with others, has been conducting a successful work in Columbus, Miss., writing to the Minnesota Worker, notes the addition of three more converts, and adds: "I am now alone in the work here. My wife has gone to Yazoo City, Miss., and taken up the work of teaching the colored children. She is connected in labor with Brother and Sister F. R. Rogers, formerly of the State of Minnesota. They had over ninety students enrolled at my last hearing, and still their numbers were increasing. How much we are in need of this line of workers in Mississippi! In these schools the Bible is the first and last. In this way the truth is carried to the fathers and mothers. But very few of the old people can read."

WE have not yet received the first number of our London colaborer, Present Truth, for the new year, but a recent prospectus says: "It has been decided to make some changes in the appearance of our paper at the beginning of the new year. A better quality of paper will be used, a new design will be secured in the heading, and an effort will be made to secure more and better cuts for illustrating the various departments. We hope that these improvements will make the paper more acceptable to those who are already reading it, and that they will assist the workers in introducing it to many new readers. The present circulation is nearly sixteen thousand, which is very gratifying as compared with what it was two years ago, but there is still an unlimited field for increase, and we are sure that much more can be done."