OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 46.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS

By Editor

SINCE July 12, sixteen members have been added to the church in St. Paul, Minn.

FOUR new Sabbath-keepers are reported by Brother C. H. Bliss, in connection with his work at Salem, Ill.

AN important dedication service was recently held at Alexandria, S. D., visitors being present from ten other towns.

ON the 6th ult., eight members were added to the church at Decatur, Ill., by baptism. Brother E. A. Curtis administered the ordinance.

A NEW house of worship is nearing completion at Grand Junction, Colo. Brother J. Wibbens reports good prospects for the church school.

AT Genoa, Neb., October 13, at the quarterly-meeting service, three members were added to the church. Brother George H. Smith officiated.

THE brethren at Cotton, Mo., have a new house of worship about completed, which will be dedicated free from debt. The brethren at Appleton City have also begun the erection of a new church building.

THE Reporter says that the brethren at Grand Island, Neb., recently purchased a church building from the Baptists, which will furnish room both for the Sabbath meetings and a church school.

BROTHER DAN. T. JONES and family, after a few months' sojourn at their old home in Missouri, have returned to their post at Guadalajara, Mexico. The Record states that Brother Jones' health has materially improved.

AT the country residence of a Brother Mauk, in Box Butte County, Neb., October 7, the brethren from twenty miles around were gathered in by Brother O. S. Ferren, and the ordinances were celebrated. A few meetings had been held in a schoolhouse previous to this occasion. Ten persons united with the church. Eight were baptized, two having received baptism before. Two sisters will canvass the country and towns for the World's Outlook number of the SIGNS. The brethren also decided to erect a church and school building, and the work is being rapidly pushed forward.

WRITING from Port of Spain, island of Trinidad, to the Dakota Worker, Brother L. M. Crowther gives some items that indicate a great need of missionary work, and a field that only a love of souls would induce a Christian to enter. He says:—

“All the abominations forbidden in Deut. 18: 10, 11, are practised here. We have seen great crowds of people witness the pouring out of libations to the sun, and heathenish incantations to frighten away the evil spirits. They passed through the fire, and did many other like things. There is more vice, profanity, drunkenness, and general degradation within a block of our mission than you could easily gather together in all Sioux Falls. More fights and arrests occur before our hall than in any ward of your city, to say the least. We hear more cursing and loud, angry talk in a week than I ever heard in five years in America. True, this is one of the worst places in the city, and this city is the worst place on the island; but it is all vile enough. Yet our people live in the midst of this, and live as close to the Lord as many in America. The truth has power to keep from sin, if we only receive it. We are trying to raise money to build a church, and in three weeks it has reached the sum of $2.40. Some of them make three or four dollars a month, and pay tithes of that, and then put a little into the box for that prospective building. . . . And Venezuela is just opposite to us, and must be worked from here. This is the place to teach us to pray the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers into His field.”

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