OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 4, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 14.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

An addition of five to our ranks is a partial result of Bible-readings given in Camden, N. J., by Sister M. A. Neale.

Three persons have recently accepted the truth under the labors of Sister R. F. Mead, at East Galway, N. Y.

On the 11th ult., Brother L. W. Felter and wife, of Missouri Conference, left Kansas City for Guadalajara, Mexico, to engage in labor.

Drs. D. W. and Eva A. Read, lately connected with the Nebraska Sanitarium at College View, have gone to Salt Lake City to engage in sanitarium work.

The brethren at Roseau, Minn., assisted by Brother J. C. Christenson, are finishing up the house of worship that has stood for several years in an unfinished condition.

Twenty-eight States and countries are represented in Union College, College View, Neb. So says Brother H. F. Phelps, in Minnesota Worker. The college has an enrolment of 475 students.

Lintonia is a suburb of Yazoo City, Miss. Here the Southern Missionary Society have a school for colored children, which is proving a real success. The Gospel Herald for February reports an average attendance of 140, and the school is gaining a good reputation for order and efficiency.

On the evening of February 22, Brother A. T. Jones, editor of the Review and Herald, addressed an audience of about four hundred people in Philadelphia, on the subject of "The Bible and the Ages." One object of the address was to raise funds to assist the Helping Hand Mission of that city.

A report in Echoes from the Field from Brother W. Zeigler says that at Greeley, Colo., "the Lord has abundantly blessed the work, enabling us to gather together a number of scattered Sabbath-keepers, with some new ones. On January 7 we organized a church of forty-six members."

It is estimated that about $100,000 will be on the pay-roll of the Foreign Mission Board at the coming annual settlement. It must not be understood, however, that this pay-roll covers all the foreign mission work that is done by the denomination. It does not take into account the self-supporting class of laborers.

Eight tent companies will operate in Kansas this season, one being for German work, and one in the interest of the Swedes. Plans have also been laid for five camp-meetings, as follows: The State meeting to be at Emporia, September 20-30; the others, for districts, to be held at Great Bend, May 31 to June 20; Wellington, July 12-22; Stockton, July 26 to August 5; Clay Center, August 9-19.

At the recent district conference held at Kansas City, Mo., it was resolved to do "more work in the distribution of our literature, especially the Signs of the Times." Also, that "renewed efforts be put forth in the circulation of the American Sentinel, that the world may be educated in the right principles of religious liberty."

A canvassers' institute is being held at the Woodland, Wis., Academy. Apropos of the academy, the Reporter says: "A new sewing-machine has just been added to the equipment of the school, and the experiment of making men's every-day shirts and overalls for market will be tried. A market has already been found."

At a recent meeting of the directors of the Southern Missionary Society, the following officers were elected: President, J. E. White; vice-president, E. A. Sutherland; secretary, F. M. Kellogg; treasurer, F. W. Halladay. The society is now erecting necessary buildings at Vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss., for the conduct of its important work among the colored people. Those who desire to help in this educational and Gospel work can address Southern Missionary Society, Battle Creek, Mich., College Building, and be assured that they are helping a worthy enterprise.