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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 33.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A CAMP-MEETING will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from the 15th to the 24th ult.
THE baptism of three persons—father, mother, and son—at Keene, N. H., is noted in the Gleaner.
THE Maine camp-meeting will be held at Waterville, on the same ground as last year, August 21 to September 1.
AT the last celebration of the ordinances at Danville, Va., twelve candidates were baptized by Brother I. E. Kimball.
UP to the middle of July, the sales by canvassers for our books in Minnesota amounted to $770 more than for the same period last year.
THERE are to be two camp-meetings in Minnesota this fall, one at St. Peter, September 9-14, and one at Long Prairie, September 23-28.
AN institute for the church-school teachers of Southern California Conference will be held in Los Angeles, August 26 to September 11.
THE Minnesota Worker reports the baptism of five candidates by Brother J. J. Graf at Freeland, where he was laboring among the German population.
THE Southern Training-school at Graysville, Tenn., shipped from their orchard, during one week, over 500 crates of peaches. The Watchman says that this section is especially adapted to the cultivation of fruit, and it is believed that fruit-growing will prove to be the school's most profitable industry.
CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS, Pennsylvania's noted watering-place, is now the seat of an encouraging tent effort, under the direction of Brother Charles Baierle.
IN connection with tent-meetings held at Johnstown, Pa., by Brethren W. F. Schwartz and E. J. Dryer, five converts are reported, with a good continuing interest.
AT a recent session of the executive committee of California Conference at Healdsburg, teachers were located for twenty-five church-schools to commence the coming fall. Ten or more schools are yet to be provided for.
A CORRESPONDENCE school in connection with Healdsburg (Cal.) College will be opened October 1. Applications should be made at once, inclosing a membership fee of $1.00, to Mrs. Alma McKibben, Healdsburg, Cal.
A SERIES of tent-meetings is being held in Philadelphia, Pa., by Brother E. E. Franke, and a good attendance is reported. The tent is located at Forty-first Street and Parkside Avenue. The effort is sustained by an efficient company of workers.
A COMMENDABLE enterprise is noted in the Atlantic Union Gleaner. Three students of South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy have procured a large tent of their own, and under the direction of Brother H. H. Dexter, have commenced meetings in Brownfield, Maine.
BROTHER H. S. SHAW says, in the Worker, that "the work in Minnesota is very encouraging. The way the brethren and sisters in the State have taken hold of the work with 'Object Lessons,' and the effect of the work being done, will bring a harvest in time to come that will make hearts glad."
THE Los Angeles Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association was recently incorporated and the following persons chosen as directors: F. B. Moran, M. D., T. J. Evans, M. D., R. S. Owen, C. Santee, S. S. Merrill, W. M. Healey, and T. S. Whitelock, M. D. In organizing the board, Dr. Moran was elected president, and S. S. Merrill, secretary.
THE Southern Watchman of the 24th ult. says: "Last Sabbath afternoon there was a colored church organized at Nashville, consisting of fifteen members. Others will unite later. Elders Butler, White, Bollman, and Stone were present, and rendered assistance in the meeting. Officers were elected and ordained, and the church has bright prospects before it."
REPORTING to the Indicator from Buffalo, N. Y., Brother E. E. Connerly says: "Our quarterly-meeting was a season of blessing. Three new members were taken into the church, and five celebrated the ordinances with us for the first time." Brother G. B. Thompson, president of the conference, says that Captain Johnson, of the missionary boat Sentinel, is having excellent success with our books and tracts in Buffalo Harbor.
REPORTING to the Review from Jerusalem, Brother S. Jespersson says: "The medical mission here is doing well at present. Our patients are people of the better classes. Even physicians and pharmacists come for treatment. One pharmacist, who was suffering from stomach trouble, was cured in a short time after coming to us. He now recommends our establishment to his customers, and does what he can for us."
FROM Guadalajara (Mexico) Sanitarium Dr. Erkenbeck writes to the Review: "The work at the mission for the poor has been a great educator to the public. Some of our native brethren are laboring faithfully to penetrate the darkness of superstition and ignorance. Also several native missionaries have been relieved of their physical suffering, and are able to return to their work. Some of the missionaries have stayed with us several weeks to take instruction in giving simple treatments. Better days are before us."
A LETTER from Brother W. A. Sweany, Bridgetown, Barbados, W. I., dated July 15, says: "Our work here is making some advancement, despite difficulties. I baptized two persons at our last quarterly-meeting, making twenty-eight during the year we have been here. A number more are preparing for the ordinance. Some very influential people are interested, and many of the common people hear the message gladly. Our church-school is prospering, and we hope soon to be able to send out some teachers to take charge of local schools in neighboring islands. Several requests have reached us from our brethren who have raised up companies in various fields. We greatly need a well-equipped training-school, and hope soon to see a start made in that direction." Brother Sweany also notes the design to start a paper for that field, in addition to the Beacon series of tracts and leaflets.
FOR the great demand for medical missionary work in Los Angeles, Cal., our sanitarium there needs increased facilities. Dr. Moran says "Los Angeles and vicinity is one of the most fruitful fields for medical missionary work in all the world. This section has become one of the greatest tourist resorts on the continent, from forty to sixty thousand tourists visiting the place every year. The majority of these are seeking health and recuperation, and are greatly in need of just what we should be able to give them." Coming as they do from all parts of the world, the seeds of health-giving and spiritual truth sown among them is in a measure "sowing beside all waters."