OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 27, 1900

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

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

AT Durango, Colo., the addition of four persons to our ranks is reported by Brother H. M. J. Richards.

AT North Grove, Iowa, five converts are reported by Brother P. P. Adams. He also notes a Sabbath-school with an attendance of twenty.

AS A result of labor at Jerseyville, Ill., by Brethren J. P. Henderson and W. M. Lewsadder, since last fall, fifty persons have become obedient to the truth.

THE baptism of four candidates at North Willow, Colo., and two at Cripple Creek is noted by Brother J. M. Rees, president of the conference, in a report to Echoes from the Field.

MAY 12 a church of ten members was organized at Columbus Junction, Iowa, where Brother U. P. Long has been laboring. Brother H. Nicola officiated at the organization. Two others were subsequently baptized. Brethren Nicola and U. P. Long also visited the church at Bard, and five candidates were baptized.

TENT-MEETINGS recently held at Redding and Palocedro, Cal., have so far resulted in twenty-six persons accepting the truths presented from the Word of God. The laborers have been C. N. Martin, A. J. Osborne and wife, C. E. Knight and wife, and Milton St. John. The SIGNS was circulated in both places, which are in close proximity, previous to the meetings.

A CHURCH has been organized at Chico, Cal., with a membership of twenty-four. This consummation is mainly the result of labor by Brethren A. J. Osborne and W. L. Sims, in which the SIGNS was freely used as a pioneer by Brother Sims and Brother C. E. Knight and wife. The organization was completed by Brother C. N. Martin.

OF the work at Yazoo City, Miss., Brother J. E. White writes: "School work has been an important factor at this place. There is a flourishing day and night school at Lintonia, and another at Wilsonia, both suburbs of Yazoo City. In these schools the usual public school readers have been discarded, and their place supplied with the "Gospel Primer," "Gospel Reader," "Christ Our Saviour," and the Bible."

WRITING of jail work in Denver, to Echoes from the Field, Brother E. C. Clark says: "Out of seven young men here in the jail, six of them were won by the love of Christ, and are now working for others behind the bars." Amongst other things that call for reflection, he continues: "Ninety-nine per cent. of all that are turned out of the prisons have made up their minds to do right, but they find every one against them—no friend that cares for them. If they get work, they lose it just as soon as they are found to be jail birds. There is no one to give them a helping hand or a kind word, no one to encourage them to do right, so the devil has no trouble to get them started down the hill again."

IN the Workers' Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, of May 29 is an interesting report of labor in Finland, where Brother John Hoffman and thirteen canvassers are at work, all of whom are said to be doing well. Of the country, writing from Helsingfors, the capital, he says: "We are in a land where the heat doesn't trouble us much. This is May 1, but big snow banks are all around the house where we live, and the water is freezing now out-of-doors at four o'clock P.M. The ice breaker came in yesterday to open up navigation, coming to the harbor through ice three feet thick. These ice breakers are very powerful ships, with two screws in the stern and one in the bow. At Hauge, Finland's winter port, they have been assisting vessels through pack ice twenty feet deep this winter. The university students march up and down the streets to-day wearing white caps, celebrating the 1st of May."