OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

SUBSCRIPTION-BOOK sales amounting to over $11,000 are reported by Nebraska Tract Society for the year 1899.

A GERMAN Sabbath-school of thirty members was organized by Brother J. A. Schlotthauer, at Wilcox, Ida., on December 9.

THE church at Hartington, Neb., organized November 7, with twenty-two members, have a new house of worship under way.

IN reporting meetings held at Colorado Springs, Colo., Brother W. W. Hills notes the addition of nine members to the church.

FIVE converts are reported by Brother W. H. White as a partial result of meetings held in a schoolhouse, Stockville, Neb.

A GOOD interest is reported by Brother G. H. Smith at Morrillville, Neb., where seven have decided to observe the Sabbath of the Lord.

IN connection with South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy, a seminary has been started for the benefit of those who are teaching or preparing to teach. Its aim is to discuss methods, in the light of God's Word.

EIGHT converts to the truth at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, are reported by Brother A. G. Christianson, who has been holding meetings at that place. The free use of a schoolhouse has been granted him for taking care of it.

BROTHER C. H. JONES, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, returned from a business tour to the East on the 8th inst. Amongst other business was an extended meeting of the Foreign Mission Board, of which he is a member. The board is strenuously endeavoring to face the problem of raising means to meet the ever-increasing demand for means to answer the calls that are coming from every quarter, "Come over and help us." The situation ought to be more of a burden on many besides the brethren on the board.

THIS item appears in the West Virginia Monitor of the 3d inst.: "The Wheeling church has sold nearly 1,000 copies of the Harvest number of the Signs of the Times since November 15, and expect to exceed that number."

FIVE persons went forward in the ordinance of baptism at Grand Junction, Colo., recently, several other candidates being kept away by stormy weather. Brother L. H. Proctor has been holding meetings in that vicinity.

ANOTHER educational journal comes to hand, the Industrial Educator, magazine form, monthly, issued by the Academy Press, at Keene, Texas. It is a credit to the institution mechanically, besides containing interesting matter. Twenty-five cents a year.

ON the city mission at Lincoln, Neb., Brother E. H. Tupper says, "We find many poor people who need temporal as well as spiritual help, and, O, how good it seems to be able to help them!" An entertainment for children was given on the evening of December 20, says the Reporter.

A WORKINGMEN'S HOME has been started in Boise, Idaho; also an orphanage. Brother G. W. Reaser, president of Upper Columbia Conference, has been visiting that locality, and reports the work in an encouraging condition, which report these two establishments seem to corroborate.

AN example of the difficulties with which our foreign missionaries have to contend is set forth in the following extract from a letter to the Missionary Visitor, from Brother George F. Enoch, who is laboring at Hope Bay, Jamaica:—

"Our brethren are very poor in these islands, yet they began by doing the very best they could. We began our Swift River chapel here in September. The money was coming in slowly yet regularly, when, owing to the unusual heat, an epidemic of fever swept over the island. This district has suffered severely. I know of no house in the whole district excepting our own that has not one or more tossing in beds of fever. As the people in tropical climes only live from day to day without laying up anything, you can see the effect it had on our chapel. But the Lord is good, and we looked forward to the time when the epidemic would be gone and our brethren and sisters able to go to work again. But, alas! we are in the hurricane belt. On November 8 a heavy wind-storm swept over the island, and, at least in this part of it, leveled their cultivations to the ground. The banana is the dependence of the people in this parish, and both this year's crop and next year's are gone. And our chapel here is scarcely half finished."

Such instances should arouse a deeper interest in the foreign work, which is ever held back for lack of means, and lack of an appreciation of the many obstacles that are constantly arising.