OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1902

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE Dakota Worker notes the organization of a church at Arvilla, N. D., by Brother N. W. Allee.

JANUARY 26 a church of thirteen members was organized at Midway, Mo., by Brother W. T. Millman.

THE addition of three members to the church at Clinton, Iowa, is reported by Brother N. M. Jorgensen.

HEADQUARTERS of Tennessee River Conference is now at Franklin, Ky. The officers are: President, W. J. Stone; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. E. Spire.

THE brethren at Oshkosh, Wis., have rented the church belonging to the Free Methodists.

THE annual session of the Northwestern Union Conference will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, April 1-10.

AT the last quarterly meeting of the church at Tomah, Wis., three persons were admitted to membership.

THE new house of worship at Seward, Neb., was dedicated on the 2d inst. by Brethren G. M. Brown and O. A. Hall.

THE Minnesota Worker says that the brethren at Drywood have finished their church building, with a nicely furnished schoolroom.

THE brethren of Missouri have instituted a conference poor fund, to which donations are invited. The move is certainly a good one.

THE Watchman, published at Nashville, Tenn., says that three new churches have been organized in that conference since last camp-meeting.

THE baptism of six candidates at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is reported in the Bulletin by Brother G. W. Anglebarger. There have been twenty-eight members added to this church since last October.

THE Vancouver World of the 7th inst. notes the growth of the church in that place, and announces that work has been commenced on a new house of worship, designed to seat about three hundred people.

A GERMAN work has been inaugurated in St. Louis, Mo., under the auspices of the Southwestern Union Conference. Brother H. Shultz is supervising the organization and starting of this enterprise.

FOUR candidates were baptized in the church in this city, on the 15th inst., by the pastor, Brother J. O. Corliss. Three of these were the fruit of labor at Berkeley, by Brother C. P. Everson. It is expected that a church will be organized in that place in the near future.

BROTHER R. C. PORTER, who is in charge of the work in St. Louis, Mo., is giving special attention to the religious liberty phase. St. Louis is now an important center, and will continue to be such until after the great exposition of 1903, the preparation for which is now in progress.

THE president of Indiana Conference, Brother I. J. Hankins, says: "We are glad to know that our young people in Indiana are organizing for study and for work. Good reports are coming in from the newly-organized societies. Let the good work go on, and let the meetings be conducted by and for the youth and children; but let the church and Sabbath-school officers advise and counsel the youth, encouraging them in every good work."

BROTHER CHARLES CORNELL, elder of the church at Colby, Wash., has been holding Sunday-evening meetings for some time. The local paper of the town recently contained the following notice:—

"If numbers be an encouragement to a public speaker, then Mr. Charley Cornell must have been encouraged Sunday evening; for, notwithstanding cold weather and bad roads, the little white church on the hill was filled. The praise service was entered into with zeal, and Mr. Cornell's remarks received careful attention. Mr. Cornell, an Adventist in belief, is, above all things, a Christian gentleman, and in his Sunday evening services is doing a good work. He deserves the appreciation and assistance of the community if we wish our little village to become one of the representative cities of the Sound."

WRITING to the Illinois Recorder of the work in Chicago, Brother L. D. Santee says:—

"The Life-boat Mission still has its meetings three hundred and sixty-five nights every year, and to know what it is doing, one has only to hear the testimonies of those who have been rescued from the depths. Those having it in charge are very much worn, but they will not abandon their work until others are found to take their place. The Workingmen's Home is still what it was organized to be, a friend of the poor. Health-food stores and hygienic restaurants are being multiplied, and in all these ways God is offering the people something better than they now possess. Those in charge of the Chinese school are deserving of all praise for their faithfulness. There is a lack of teachers, and they labor under many discouragements, but the school continues."