OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 39.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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ELDER S. H. LANE has been re-elected president of Illinois Conference.

THREE candidates were baptized at Keokuk, Iowa, September 11, by Elder D. P. Gaede.

AT Pine Valley, near Neillsville, Wis., the Reporter notes the addition of seven to the church.

THE Minnesota Tract Society reports orders for 1,268 books from canvassers for fall delivery.

AT the recent camp-meeting held at Logansport, Ind., twenty-five brethren were baptized. Brethren O. S. Hadley and P. G. Stanley were ordained to the Gospel ministry.

THE book, "Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists," by Elder J. N. Loughborough, has been published in the German language, and is now ready for orders. Price, $1.00.

THE address of the Welcome Visitor, the Ohio Conference paper, as also the headquarters of the Ohio Sabbath-school Association, has been changed to 152½ Birch Street, Cleveland.

ELDER D. T. SHIREMAN reports the addition of six members to the church at Asheville, N. C.

ELDER G. A. IRWIN, president of the General Conference, has been confined to his house recently with sciatic rheumatism.

As a result of Bible readings and other missionary work in Philadelphia, the past year, thirty-six persons decided to come over on the Lord's side. Elder E. A. Merrell has had charge of the work.

THE secretary of the Minnesota Tract Society reports orders for 1,400 books from canvassers for fall delivery. The most of these were for the larger works, such as "The Great Controversy," "Prophecies of Jesus," and "Daniel and Revelation."

ELDER A. T. JONES, of the General Conference Committee, gives us an encouraging item concerning school work. He was present at the recent opening of Union College, at College View, Neb., and says that 169 were enrolled the first day, and more came in afterward, making about 180. The prospect is good all round for a good year. In Battle Creek College 380 are entered.