OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 10, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 41.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

FOUR candidates were baptized at St. Paul, Minn., September 15, in connection with meetings held by Brethren A. J. Stone and J. Anderson.

AT the recent camp-meeting held at Dayton, Ohio, seventeen candidates were baptized, and several others deferred the ordinance until after their return to their home churches.

BEGINNING with the November number, the Missionary Magazine will publish a series of articles on Church History. These will continue for a year or more, bringing out many points of interest to the church at the present time, and will add interest to this already valuable periodical. Now is a good time to subscribe. Monthly; 50 cents a year. 150 Nassau Street, New York City.

THE church in this city was doubly blessed on Sabbath, September 22. Brother George A. Irwin, president of the General Conference, spoke to the people in the morning, and Sister E. G. White in the afternoon. The latter service was altogether unexpected, because Sister White had just landed late the night before after her long voyage from Australia. Her being able to talk to the people for an hour so soon after landing will also be a surprise to the friends left in Australia, one of whom wrote by the same boat: "For a time it seemed impossible in her state of health to undertake such a journey, and that she might not live to reach America if she started." The same writer says: "If our people could only realize what it costs her at her age to leave her quiet home, and the friends here, they could better sense her unselfish labors in their behalf." One of her traveling companions says, "She suffered little from seasickness, and during most of the time enjoyed an unusually good degree of health."

BROTHER P. R. ALBRECHT, having gone to Arizona to labor, writes from Flagstaff to the Wisconsin Reporter:—

"This country is wild in most places. For the greater part it has been well named—arid line. Still some parts of it, I am told, are excellent. Around Phœnix is the garden of the land. I expect to work down that way and we locate there. Flagstaff is about 7,000 feet above the sea level, and directly north of the city the San Francisco Peaks reach an elevation of about 13,000 feet. Snow may be found there all summer. Flagstaff is a town of about 1,500 people. The chief and about only industry is a large sawmill, which employs hundreds of hands. They run day and night. Wages are good here but eatables are high. Rent is high also. City water for just household use costs $2.00 per month, or where they have meters $1.00 per thousand gallons. Clothing and dry goods are but little more expensive than in the East. Horses and wood are very cheap. A first-class Western horse (not bronco, you can get them at $5.00) can be bought at $20 or $25. Railroad fare is high. From five to eight cents per mile is the regular charge. I am told that at Phœnix everything is very cheap. They raise fruit and vegetables in abundance there, whereas everything that people eat has to be shipped in to this place. We have a church building in this town, and a small but growing congregation."

A LETTER from Brother W. J. Tanner, in the Atlantic Chesapeake News, gives an interesting account of his trip to, and initial work in, Jamaica. He was advised to labor in the mountain region until somewhat acclimated. From Kingston he sailed to Alligator Pond, whence he was taken in a carriage twelve miles, to Southfield. Of this place he says:—

"Southfield is the name of an estate, and not a town or even a village, but simply a mountain community. Here we have a nice church of fifty or more members, besides a number who have not yet united with the church. The Lord has been permitted to do a good work for the people here, and the work seems to be going on; for there is still a good outside interest, in spite of opposition from the Church of England and Plymouth Brethren companies here. I find that the people here are interested in the same subjects that interest us at home. They will listen to a talk on the prophecies with equal interest to an ordinary congregation in America. The main point in speaking to these people is to observe simplicity. We are now keeping house. Our home is 1,550 feet above the sea, and as I am writing I can look out of our front door and across the sea, about two miles away. At times the clouds come down and envelop us, but thus far the atmosphere has been very clear. The temperature is all that could be desired. August is the warmest month of the year, and to-day is as warm as any, yet at midday the thermometer only registered eighty-two in the warmest part of our house."