OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jan 20, 1904

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THREE candidates were baptized in Laguna Street church, San Francisco, on the evening of the 3d inst., by Brother B. F. Richards.

As a result of a week's meetings at Lake Village, Ark., by Brother S. S. Ryles, two persons were baptized, and a church of eight members was organized.

BROTHER F. H. CONWAY reports that eight young people have recently taken their stand for the faith at Perry, O. T., and that seven had started in the Christian life at Lone Elm.

BROTHER HENRY JOHNSON writes from Sheyenne, N. D., that he has held meetings in a hall for a few weeks, and a family of four have accepted the truth, while others are deeply interested.

WE notice in the Southwestern Union Record that some brethren in Arkansas who have been selling the special SIGNS are following it up with canvassing for the regular issues. This is what ought to be done everywhere; in fact, this is where the greatest benefit of the great edition comes in.

ABOUT four years ago the General Conference commenced publishing the Christian Record, a monthly magazine for the blind. It is set in two well-known systems, the American Braille and the New York Point. Its patronage has demonstrated that the paper has a mission and a field. There are more than eighty thousand educated blind people in America, besides many thousands who, on account of impaired vision, are excluded from the public schools. When the Lord says, "Preach the Gospel to every creature," these blind people are included, and they are entitled to the last message of the pure Gospel. From whom shall they get it?—It must necessarily be from those, and from those only, who know the message themselves. The Record is $2.00 a year, which is a very low price, considering the great expense of preparing such a paper. Send all donations and subscriptions to the office of the General Conference, 222 N. Capitol St., Wash., D. C.

WRITING from the Gold Coast, West Africa, Brother J. M. Hyatt says: "We can see that some [of the native ministers] are getting stirred and we hope for good. Several are reading the SIGNS. We receive the club of ten that some one is sending us. It was through the good influence of the SIGNS that we obtained the location that we have. Several are keeping the Sabbath with us. Our largest attendance at Sabbath-school is fifty-five, while at our weekly meetings the number is often three times as large. This can not be called a Sabbath-school in the true sense of the word, as our numbers greatly fluctuate. Some, we think, are about ready for baptism, and we hope for others soon. Some of the most influential people are interested in our work. Some come from twelve to sixty miles to get our books. Far more people here are able to read than is generally reckoned, and we hope to get many of our books and papers out among them. They like very much anything that is readable that comes from 'America.' In fact, we fear that they learn the 'American' way sooner than the truth. One would be surprised to see the literature that comes in on every steamer, the larger part from the United States, almost everything from a cheap work on Hypnotism to a standard reference book. Several of the American colored people have been on the West Coast, from Free Town to Lagos, hence the desire for things that are 'American.' The truth that we carry is not 'American,' but still better, so we must try to give it to the people."