p. 11 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 11, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 15.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE baptism of five candidates at Grand Junction, Colo., is reported by Brother L. H. Proctor. The rite was celebrated in the Christian Tabernacle.

ON a recent visit to Beaverton, Oregon, Brother R. D. Benham preached five times and baptized four candidates. The baptistry of the Baptist Church was kindly loaned for the occasion.

MARCH 24 Brother J. W. Bagby baptized six candidates, and organized a church of thirteen members, at Williams, Cal., where Brethren F. D. Gautereau and Ernest Bond have been laboring.

A GENERAL meeting for the Scandinavian laborers on the Pacific Coast was held at Monitor, Oregon, beginning March 29. Brethren L. P. Jacobson and Andrew Brorsen represented the work in California.

SEVEN members were recently added to the church at Ventura, Cal., by baptism. The ordinance was administered by Brother S. Thurston, at Santa Paula. Twenty have now been added to the Ventura church since last conference meeting.

THE South African Sentinel is now printed by the new printing department of Claremont Union College, and its mechanical appearance is very much improved. The journal is a good representative of the cause in its important field. It contains thirty-two pages, large magazine form, is published monthly, and the subscription is 4s. 6d. per annum. Address, 28a Roeland Street, Cape Town, South Africa.

A REPORT in the Illinois Recorder, from Brethren J. P. Henderson and W. M. Lewsadder, says: 'The Lord continues to bless our work in Jerseyville. Up to this time forty-six persons have signed the covenant to "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." One lady from St. Louis while visiting with her widowed mother accepted the Sabbath and went home in the love of a newly-found Saviour.'

THE following extract from a letter is a good, whole-souled testimonial. We find it in the Tennessee Watchman: 'You ask how I like the SIGNS OF THE TIMES? I think it is the best family paper I have ever read. I am not a member of the Adventist Church. There is no Adventist Church in this locality, and no Adventists that I know of. I would be glad if there were. I believe what the Adventists teach is the truth.'

ELDER W. M. HEALEY reports the baptism of five candidates at Los Angeles, Cal. In the same report (to the California Missionary) he makes this timely suggestion regarding the practicability of church schools. Referring to the one at Centralia, he says: 'The church is learning some wholesome truths by its experience with the school. The church school may be of great value to the parent as well as to the child. It will often show the errors of parents in the training of their children, for their short-comings in the home are pretty sure to be manifest in the church school, more so than in the public school, because the child feels more liberty; it is more like home. The work of the Spirit is to point out our errors, and when we turn from them, then it comforts us. The Lord is blessing the Centralia church.'

THE Educational number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is doing much to bring before the world the true principles of education, and it is the aim of the publishers to make the paper an educator indeed, especially with regard to the bearing of current doings and teachings of the world and the church upon the fulfilment of prophecy. It is not the signs of past times that are of urgent importance to-day—excepting as they practically illustrate the universality of cause and effect—but it is the indication of things happening in our day, the signs of our times, the warnings of the Spirit of prophecy against that which will arise in these latter times, to which the paper is designed to call attention. In carrying this prominent feature of the last message of God to the world (Rev. 14:9-12) the "everlasting Gospel" in all its phases is not to be lost sight of, as without that remedy for existing evils in both Church and State, the warning against those evils would be superfluous and fruitless.