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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 12.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A SESSION of the Lake Union Conference will be held in Chicago March 27 to April 6.
A HOUSE of worship is being erected at Meeker, Col., where Brother L. H. Proctor is laboring.
A SESSION of the Northwestern Union Conference will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, April 3-13.
As a result of labor by Brother M. Mackintosh in San Luis Valley, Col., eleven persons were recently baptized.
BROTHER C. H. BATES reports to Echoes from the Field that three persons were baptized at Pueblo, Col., on the 1st inst.
AFTER a recent visit to Poplar Bluff, Mo., Brother J. M. Rees, president of the Conference, reported five candidates for baptism.
THE Southwestern Union Conference will hold a biennial session in Topeka, Kansas, beginning April 16 and continuing until the 27th.
SPEAKING of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the Nebraska Reporter says, "As a help in missionary effort nothing surpasses this valuable paper."
A CHURCH of twelve members, all Mexicans, was recently organized at Laredo, Texas, by Brother W. A. McCutcheon, president of Texas Conference.
OUR little company at Rena, Mo., are working hard to help supply clothing to poor people who are still suffering from the effects of the severe drought in that region last year. They say the demand is greater than the supply.
Reporting to the Monitor, Brother J. A. Fraugh notes that seven persons are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of labor at Belington, W. Va.
A CANVASSERS' institute of one month's duration will be held at Johnstown, Pa., beginning May 5, to be followed by the State camp-meeting, June 5-16.
Meetings held at Kaycee, Wyo., by Brethren J. W. Beams and E. L. Cook, have so far resulted in six converts. Two of these, young ladies, have decided to attend Union College.
BROTHER W. H. WAKEHAM, the Bible teacher at Mount Vernon (Ohio) Academy, has been invited by the Mission Board to take the general superintendence of the work in Egypt, and he expects to start at the close of the present term of school.
Meetings held at Scotland, Ontario, by Brother W. A. Young, have created a good interest. His first meeting on the Sabbath day was attended by twenty adults and ten children, nearly all of whom expressed their intention to keep the Sabbath of the Lord henceforth.
THE death of Brother J. P. Henderson, at Springfield, Ill., February 18, takes away another faithful minister of the Word. His death was caused by congestion of the lungs. He had labored in several of the Western conferences, and led many people to a knowledge of the truth.
The April issue of the Life Boat is to be a special prisoner's number, and will be supplied in quantities at one cent per copy. This journal has the indorsement of all the leading prison officials in the country. Single subscriptions, 25 cents a year. Address 28 Thirty-third place, Chicago, Ill.
SISTER IONE V. CARR, formerly a Bible-worker in Pennsylvania Conference, has answered a call for the development of an industrial school near Barnwell, S. C., and now she is appealing to her former co-laborers to assist in the purchase of fifty acres of land, with buildings, which is well adapted to the purpose. The place can be had for $700.
The kingdom of Holland is now a separate conference, having been organized about two months ago. The membership is about two hundred, with two ordained ministers, two licentiates, three Bible-workers, and a dozen colporters. Brother J. Wabbens, who is located at Hoorn, says that place has 11,000 inhabitants, one-third Catholic and two-thirds irreligious, with few exceptions.
BROTHER L. V. FINSTER, formerly of Nebraska, is now in West Australia. He is laboring in "practically a new missionary field" about seventy miles from Perth, the capital, where he reports having found six persons who had begun to keep the Sabbath from reading books sold by some canvasser. Writing to the Nebraska Reporter, he says, "A few others have taken their stand with them, and we hope for a nice company here."
In making a house-to-house canvass of San Francisco, the Sunday-school Association's agents are compiling the relative percentage of attendance on the part of the various religious denominations. As far as computed, the Seventh-day Adventists lead, their percentage of attendance being 95. Of course this is their attendance at Sabbath-school, but in the census it is reckoned as Sunday-school attendance, the percentage meaning the percentage of children of church-members under the age of 17 years. The Scientists rank the lowest, being only 43 per cent.