p. 11 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 38.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

It has been decided to hold a camp-meeting at Lake Crystal, Minn., beginning October 3.

THE addition of six members to the church at Miller, Neb., is reported by Brother J. W. Boynton.

A LOCAL camp-meeting is in progress at Baker City, Oregon. A like meeting is being held at Basin, Mont.

A NEW church building has been erected by the brethren at Nocatee, Fla., and another is being built at Punta Gorda, in the same State.

WE are requested to state that the address of Brother B. F. Purdham, formerly of Archdale, N. C., is now Stanleyton, Page County, Va.

A NEW colporter wagon has been started in the southeastern part of Nebraska by Brethren John Richards and Simon Bowman.

SIX persons have accepted the light on "present truth" in connection with meetings held at Ponca, Neb., by Brethren J. J. Hughes and Charles Rahn.

THE Minnesota Worker has this item: "A family of Italians, in Clearfield, Pa., who had been induced by their priest to burn three Bibles, have finally taken their stand for the truth."

A NOTE in the Reaper, concerning the work in the Upper Columbia Conference, mentions the baptism of eight candidates at Powder Horn Bay, Wash., and eight at Harrison, Idaho. At the latter place a church building is in process of construction.

THE Montana Bivouac says: "The daughter of millionaire W. A. Clark, of Butte, who was recently married, made our mission the liberal present of $100 in cash on that occasion. Other churches and missions were likewise remembered. Our Butte church received $75."

At the local camp-meeting recently held in Coos County, Oregon, eleven persons were baptized. A report in the Visitor, by Brethren H. W. Decker and D. T. Fero, speaks of "Mother Bunch," who was their hostess at the meeting and is active, at the age of 74. Seven of her nine children and twenty-six of her thirty grandchildren were also present.

THE Calendar of Battle Creek College for 1900-1901 has come to hand. It is unique and original in style, and, besides elaborate information regarding the school, it contains many gems of thought interspersed through the departments. The aim of the institution is thus expressed: "As the sole object which Battle Creek College has in view is the training of young people for the vineyard of the Lord, so its entire plan of education is directed to that end." The physical, mental, and moral powers are taken into consideration.

OF the pamphlet "Marshaling of the Nations," the San Francisco Examiner says: "Mr. Jones begins building his portentous wall with apparently insignificant quotations, but soon brings these together with such rapidity and with such an effect of their having previously been cut to fit into their perfect combination, that few readers will find the time to stop and quarrel with him—even if they wish to—without losing their places." This little work contains so much important truth for these times that every one ought to be acquainted with its contents. Price, 10 cents.

BROTHER GEORGE B. THOMPSON, president of New York Conference, has this note in a recent number of the Indicator: "Not long ago it was my privilege to meet with a company of Sabbath-keepers, unexpected to them, in their weekly prayer-meeting. They had not long been rejoicing in the light of the truth. I found every Sabbath-keeper in the company at the meeting; not one was at home. They all prayed, and all bore their testimony, and told us to what part they were steering. They were all laboring people, some being farmers, living some distance in the country, yet they were there. All were not young, some being seventy-five years of age."

THE Kansas City, Mo., Journal of August 27 gave a favorable report of the State conference and camp-meeting then being held in that place. From it we learn that one result of the meeting will be the erection of a tabernacle in that city, at an approximate cost of $10,000, to be built largely at the expense of the Missouri Conference, and to be made the headquarters of the denomination in that State. The local congregation has outgrown the present house of worship, and is to be sold, the proceeds to go into the new tabernacle. A series of tent-meetings was started immediately after the camp-meeting, under the direction of Brother L. W. Terry. Brother J. M. Rees, for some time president of Colorado Conference, has been elected president of Missouri Conference, and will locate in Kansas City. The Journal further says that, owing to the marked success of the State meeting, that of next year will probably be held on the same ground.