p. 11 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 51.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

CHESAPEAKE CONFERENCE reports seven church schools, one of which is in Baltimore.

AMONG the recent recommendations of the General Conference Committee is that the committee for the Southern field be enlarged to five members, and consist of the following-named persons: N. W. Allee, S. H. Lane, S. M. Jacobs, J. E. White, and Smith Sharp.

AT Russell, Warren County, Pa., Brother Morris Lukens has been granted the use of the M. E. Church four nights of each week as long as he wishes to use it.

ACCORDING to report from Brother S. N. Curtiss, manager of the New York branch of the Pacific Press Publishing House, “work all along the line is encouraging” in that field.

THE religious liberty work in Washington, D. C., will be supervised by Brother Allen Moon during the session of Congress. Brother A. F. Ballenger is also located in Washington, doing evangelistic work under the auspices of the Chesapeake Conference.

OUR brethren in Cape Town, South Africa, have been taking advantage of the war excitement in selling literature pertaining to the signs of the times. Special war editions of the South African Sentinel and the Wachter were issued and sold very rapidly. Our pamphlet “The Alarm of War” also finds a ready sale.

IN Allegheny, Pa., Brother Lee S. Wheeler has secured the use of the lecture room of the Carnegie Free Library for Sunday-night meetings until May 1, 1900, free of cost. At his first meeting “the hall and gallery were full, and a deep interest was shown. At the close, when the SIGNS OF THE TIMES was offered to those who desired copies, the people crowded around with outstretched hands, like hungry men for bread.”

WORD has been received by the Foreign Mission Board that on September 27 the house occupied by Brother Anderson and Dr. Green, at the Central African Mission, near Buluwayo, took fire from the stovepipe, and burned, being a total loss. The thatch roof fell within ten minutes after it took fire. All their possessions, clothing, bedding, surgical instruments, mission sewing-machine, food, books, keepsakes, and watches were burned.

IN the Kansas Reporter is a note from Brother N. P. Nixon, stating that the brethren at Iola decided to send the SIGNS to 132 families for six months. Those at Thayer voted to send to 53 families for six months. At Columbus they are sending to 150 families for six months. At Galena they send to 180 families, and at Altoona, to 100 families, all for six months. There is no doubt that this will prove the cheapest and most efficient work that these brethren and sisters could do to bring the truth for these times before the people. Nor is this plan merely an experiment, for it has been tested in other places with satisfactory results.

IT is often supposed that mining communities are almost inaccessible to the Gospel. But Cripple Creek, Colo., is one of the very extensive and prosperous mining regions, and we have had some excellent reports from that place. A recent report from Brother B. W. Marsh, in Echoes from the Field, says: “It is difficult to tell the number that have taken a decided stand for the truth; the number has so increased by brethren moving in, and others accepting the message, that we have found it necessary to enlarge the church. We are now engaged in raising the building up in order to place a basement under it for the church school, which is in successful operation, and in putting an extension on the end, which will give more room in the chapel. All the means necessary for the work have been subscribed, so that we do not have to go in debt to do this work.”