OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

ELDER C. W. FLAIZ, president of Minnesota Conference, announces a general meeting for laborers in Minneapolis, October 8-17.

DURING the present month two more camp-meetings will be held in Minnesota,—one at Frazee, the 22d to the 26th, and one at Marshall, 28th to October 5.

At Lake Benton, Minn., twelve adults have taken their stand to "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." These are fruits of the labor of Elder O. O. Bernstein.

NOTWITHSTANDING the extensive drought in Australia, and a consequent dearth in business, the office of our colaborer, the Bible Echo, reports an encouraging profit the past year.

At a place known as Gutche's Schoolhouse, where Elder W. B. Hill has been laboring, twelve converts are reported, and a Sabbath-school of over twice that number has been organized.

At the recent camp-meeting held at Beatrice, Neb., eighteen persons were baptized. Another camp-meeting is to be held at Fremont, same State, beginning the 26th inst. and closing October 5.

THE Review notes a move among our sisters in the west to establish a home for homeless women in Denver, Colo. "The idea is to receive friendless and dependent women, regardless of religious profession or faith, and to endeavor to make the home as nearly self-supporting as possible." Any further information may be had of Miss Minnie A. Riley, Boulder, Colo.

A GOOD report is given of the tent-meetings held at Alden, Minn., by Elder D. E. Scoles and Brother P. S. Olsen. They have an interesting Sabbath-school, and five are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.

THE following interesting statistics, taken from the Minnesota Worker, were compiled by Elder J. N. Loughborough, a pioneer in our work:— "We first commenced the sale of our pamphlets and tracts in the year 1854. The sales for the first two years were $1,287.91. The sales for thirty years, down to the close of 1883, were $427,915.24. The canvasser's sales from that time to Jan. 1, 1897, were $4,719,100.92. The sale of trade books and the Sanitarium books was nearly four million dollars more, which, added to the sales for the first thirty years, would make over $9,000,000 worth of Advent books, pamphlets, and tracts sold since 1854. By 'trade books' we mean pamphlets, tracts, etc., aside from those sold by canvassers. January, 1897, there were 42 papers published by our people, beside the missionary State papers. Nineteen of these are in foreign tongues, and twenty-three in the English language. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination has publishing houses in twelve different parts of the world; from these are sent forth 780 different books,

pamphlets, and tracts. To secure one of each of the books, and a copy of the papers for one year, would require the sum of $280. The books already published are in the following 32 languages: Arabic, Armenian, Bosuto, Bohemian, Bulgarian, Bengalee, Chinese, Danish, English, Esthonian, Finnish, French, German, Holland, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Hawaiian, Kaffir, Lettish, Lavonian, Maori, Polish, Portuguese, Roumanian, Russian, Servian, Spanish, Swedish, Tahitian, Turkish, and Welsh."

THE recent Michigan camp-meeting and conference session has been reported from various sources as a very profitable meeting. From first to last there were a large number of leading brethren in attendance. There were two baptismal occasions, including about eighty candidates. Elder J. H. Durland was reëlected president of the conference.

A LOCAL paper, in mentioning some tent-meetings held at Randolph, Vermont, says: "The tent-meeting closed Sunday evening. The attendance has been quite good, especially toward the close. Professor Whitford's singing was much enjoyed, and both he and Elder Pierce won the good-will and respect of all by their courteous bearing. Seventh-day Adventist doctrine or not, they preached and sang much truth, which can hardly fail of bringing some good results to this community." It is due to the brethren mentioned to say that they began meetings in the face of much prejudice against the name "Adventist," because of very noisy and somewhat fanatical meetings previously held there by a different class of Adventists, who were not observers of the Sabbath of the Lord. The results of the effort of Elder Pierce and Professor Whitford would no doubt have been more marked, had they not been compelled to close on account of the camp-meeting.

UNTIL further notice the address of Elder H. A. St. John is Healdsburg, Sonoma Co., Cal.