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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 2.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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AT Sheyenne, N. D., where Brother Henry Johnson has been holding meetings, four persons have taken their stand for the truth.
AT the session of the West Virginia Conference, held at Parkersburg, Brother S. G. Huntington, recently transferred from Ontario, was elected president.
BROTHER D. T. FERO reports that he recently spent a short time with the church at Arroyo Grande, Cal., and on the 5th ult. baptized ten persons. Eleven were added to the membership.
NOTWITHSTANDING the great strike, our work at Cripple Creek, Col., is said to be moving forward nicely. Some members were obliged to move away, but others have taken hold of the truth.
DURING a season of labor at Rolla, Mo., fourteen persons have decided to step out on "the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." So Brother D. E. Scoles reports in the Workers' Record.
DURING November, seven members were added to the church at Flagstaff, A. T., by baptism. After canvassing the city with the special SIGNS, the brethren followed it with tracts prepared for the purpose.
THE Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, notes the recent graduation of nine nurses at our Sanitarium in that city. They are now prepared to go about doing good in the name of the Master. The field for such workers in the Lord's vineyard is world-wide.
THE Central Advance says "there was quite a religious awakening among the students at Union College during the week of prayer, and many of them have given their hearts to God. Union College has not witnessed so great a revival season for many years.
ON Sabbath, the 2d inst., in this city, Brother J. N. Loughborough had the pleasure of baptizing his granddaughter, Miss Nellie Ireland, and Miss Edna Shull, a compositor on the SIGNS. The rite was administered just after Sabbath-school, before the administration of the other ordinances of the Lord's house.
ACCORDING to Echoes from the Field, encouraging reports come in concerning the missionary conventions in Colorado, from which there has arisen a revival of the missionary spirit in the churches. Up to December 23, over twenty thousand copies of the special SIGNS had been ordered by that conference, and the work was still progressing.
ON the first Sabbath in February there is to be a general collection for the benefit of the International Publishing Association, which publishes periodicals in several foreign languages. The new building of the association, at College View, Neb., is "progressing rapidly," says the Advance, and money is needed for the purchase of facilities for the work. A large press has been purchased, at a cost of $2,750.
THE midwinter number of the Tidens Tecken, published in Stockholm, Sweden, is not only a handsome specimen of the typographic art, but it is filled with good matter pertaining to the last message to this perishing world. Our Swedish brethren, and others who have Swedish friends would do well to procure some copies for circulation. Address your tract society.
THE brethren everywhere will be glad to read this item from the West Michigan Herald: "Upon request of the church board, Elder M. B. Miller took charge of the week of prayer services in the Battle Creek church. This season has proved to be one of the most profitable of its nature held for some time. Evidence is given of a more thorough consecration to the work, and conversions have been made, while others have renewed their vows and been reclaimed." To this we add the report that the church's annual offering for missions amounted to $887.
FROM Brother G. W. Reaser, now at Salem, Oregon, comes this card: "I write to give you an item of encouragement in connection with the circulation of the SIGNS. Three years ago Brother Phillips gave out the papers at the Walla Walla penitentiary. One of the guards there received them reluctantly, but a short time ago took a firm stand for the truth as a result of reading them. He recently learned the address of Brother Phillips at the Portland Sanitarium, and took pains to send him word in regard to his acceptance of the message. How many will be saved by the SIGNS, of whom we will never hear until we meet them in the kingdom."
WRITING to the Review from Jamaica Island, Brother J. B. Beckner says: "The interest in the message is on the increase, notwithstanding the terrible financial condition. We have about thirty now in preparation for baptism during the week of prayer. A prominent family, of considerable landed property, have accepted the entire message since the storm. Many now realize that there will be a much greater storm just a little ahead of us." He also states that many on the island are now begging for work and food, yet he mentions two different points, Moon Park and Port Antonio, where the brethren are erecting new houses of worship, notwithstanding the hard times.
WE note the following appeal to the brethren in Iowa in a late number of the Workers' Bulletin: "Again we call attention to the importance of continuing to scatter far and near the special SIGNS. Many are inquiring, as they take note of the struggle between capital and labor, 'What do these things mean?' Let us not cease our activity until we double the number already ordered. We must not stop short of forty thousand copies. We can use this number easily if all will keep up energy and courage. We are hearing of good results of the effort thus far, and we may see greater results if we will humbly trust the Captain of our salvation and go work in His vineyard just now, warning the people of the last-day struggles."