p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1902

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of eleven members was recently organized near Plains, Mont.

THE brethren in Bozeman, Mont., are engaged in erecting a building for church and church-school purposes.

AFTER a few meetings held at Janesville, Wis., by Brother C. J. Herrman, three persons accepted the truth as presented from the Scriptures.

REPORTING from Wyoming to the Review, Brother O. S. Ferren notes the building of a log church on Columbus Creek, forty miles from Sheridan.

THE Pacific Union Conference will hold its first session at Portland, Oregon, beginning February 27 and continuing ten days. Free entertainment will be provided for the delegates.

THE Southern Watchman says that Sister E. G. White and Brother W. C. White were in Nashville, Tenn., during the greater part of the week of prayer. Sister White, tho in feeble health, spoke a short time one evening.

THE church at Hatley, Miss., has been enlarged, and a school-room has been added. Writing to the Workers' Bulletin, Brother J. S. Fry says that from the felling of the trees to the making of the seats and pulpit, the work was done by the members.

FROM Mayaquez, Porto Rico, we have this report by Mrs. A. M. Fischer: "We are pushing forward the work just as fast as possible. The people are anxious for literature. The field is an open one; God has gone before us here. A spirit of dissatisfaction is prevalent among the people; they are tired of Catholicism. Our hardest battle is with Spiritism; the island is full of it."

ON the 7th ult. three young girls were baptized at Grand Rapids, Mich., by Brother B. F. Stureman. Before conversion one of the candidates was of the "Jews' religion," another was a Catholic, and the third had no religious affiliation. The occasion was one that made a deep spiritual impression on the entire church. Writing of this incident to the Review, Brother W. H. McKee says, "The Lord thus prepared us for a precious week of prayer, and we praise His holy name."

WRITING to the Workers' Bulletin (Des Moines, Iowa) about the Oakwood Industrial School, near Huntsville, Ala., Brother S. M. Jacobs says: "The Lord has certainly had a care for all our crops, knowing there would be many to feed. There are over sixty that live off the products of the farm. Our fruit was fine, and many of our peach and plum trees were too full. One man from Wisconsin, looking for a place to locate, took a picture of some of our plum trees, and he said that he never saw anything like it for fruit."

UNDER date of September 12, Brother L. R. Conradi writes from Luxor, Upper Egypt: "You will be pleased to learn that the glorious message has taken hold away 600 miles up the Nile. I am stopping with our native minister here, and see from my balcony the ruins of Thebes. Last Sabbath we baptized eight at Cairo, and organized a church of sixteen members. Egypt is as free as any country of the world, and indeed ripe for harvest. But where are the reapers? We must immediately do more for this promising field."

THE Advocate of Christian Education for January contains the new department pertaining to the Sabbath-school work which takes the place of the Sabbath School Worker, a journal issued at this office for that special field. The Advocate now represents the whole field of Christian Education. The price is only 50 cents a year, single subscription, or 40 cents in clubs of two or more. It is issued in popular magazine style, and contains 32 pages. It is worth much more than its price to any one interested in the subject of which it is an exponent. Address Berrien Springs, Mich.

FROM November 10 to 20 a general meeting was held near the Crespo church, in the province of Entre Reve, near Argentina, South America. During the meeting twenty-six were baptized, and ten more have been baptized since. At the time this report was made, the Crespo church had 191 members. At this meeting a conference was organized, consisting of thirteen churches and 425 members. Brother N. Z. Town was elected president, and R. Diriwaechter secretary and treasurer. The organization is known as the Rio de la Plata Conference.

IT is surprising how often we make hard work where the Lord could do it so easily if we would only trust Him. An illustrative instance is related in Field Echoes, by a couple of Bible workers of Alpena, Mich., as follows: "For a long time we have felt the need of a public place of worship and have prayed much about it. A week ago we were told of a hall we might get, but found it not desirable. While we stood in doubt what to do, the Lord led us into a store, and there the man directed us to the best hall in the city. It was well-carpeted, lighted by electricity, and heated by steam; with a janitor to attend to it. We felt when we looked at it, that it was beyond our reach. We told the one in charge we needed it Sabbath afternoons and Sunday nights; when to our surprise he told us we might have it for $2.50 a month including everything."