OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 37.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

Six heads of families have accepted the truth as presented by Brethren W. A. Westworth and J. A. Traugh, at Martinsburg, W. Va.

BROTHER O. O. FARNSWORTH, who was recently elected president of Chesapeake Conference, has located at 904 Appleton Street, Baltimore, Md.

THE camp-meetings at Ottumwa and Exira, Iowa, have each been postponed one week—the former till September 17-23, and the latter till October 9-14.

AUGUST was the leading camp-meeting month this year, eighteen having been held, wholly or in part, during that month by our people in various parts of the United States.

A TEACHERS' institute follows the camp-meeting at Paris, Tenn. The brethren there are giving earnest attention to the matter of Christian education and church schools.

WE have received a copy of Rarama, our new Fiji paper, published monthly at Souva Vou, in the Fiji language. It is "printed and published" by Brother J. E. Fulton.

A LITTLE Sabbath-school is held in a schoolhouse near Spencer, W. Va., and it has become so well known that persons not of our faith come eleven miles to study the Word.

A CHURCH-SCHOOL institute is being held at Des Moines, Iowa. It is conducted by Prof. B. G. Wilkinson, of Union College, other leading educators assisting part of the time by turns.

A NOTE from Brother W. A. Spicer, editor of the Oriental Watchman, Calcutta, India, states that he had been suffering from "a run of fever;" but he had sufficiently recovered to be at work again.

BROTHER E. H. GATES, who has charge of the South Sea island work, left Sydney in July to visit the stations in Raratonga and Tahiti. A new church building was to be dedicated at Papeete, the capital of Tahiti. The work in Tahiti is being assisted by the Sabbath-school donations from Union Conference for August. A new house of worship is also being erected at Paia, eighteen miles from the capital.

IN the Record for August we see mention of the organization of a church of sixteen members at Linsmore, N. S. W., by Brethren C. H. Parker and J. Hindson. Brother Parker is now laboring in Tasmania.

AT the recent session of South Australia Conference, Brother J. H. Woods was chosen president; A. W. Semmens, vice-president; J. Higgins, secretary; Mrs. J. Higgins, tract society secretary; Mrs. A. W. Semmens, Sabbath-school secretary.

THE Southern Industrial School at Graysville, Tenn., has issued a very neat calendar for 1900-1901. It contains all the information that interested persons may need. The school year is divided into four terms of three months each, thus furnishing a summer course for those working on the farm. Prof. C. Walter Irwin is principal of the school.

THE Southern Missionary Society is planning for a strong advance movement at Nashville, Tenn. If you want to know what is being done, and help in what is proposed, send twenty-five cents to No. 1908 Grand Avenue, Nashville, and get the Gospel Herald every month for one year. Be sure to ask for the June and July numbers, as they contain much that any interested person will want to know. The June issue is rich in illustrations.

THE printing plant of Avondale School, Cooran-bong, N. S. W., is growing in efficiency and importance. In addition to the regular monthly issue of the Union Conference Record, the August number of Herald of Health was printed there; and now it is proposed to issue a monthly paper for missionary use in country districts, and at sheep-shearing stations. It will also be carried about and given away by book canvassers. This paper is to be devoted mainly to temperance reform and the coming of the Lord. A recent publication from this press is a four-pence pamphlet dealing with the eleventh chapter of Daniel, being a series of studies in the Bible class of the school.