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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 22.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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A CAMP-MEETING is to be held at Wausau, Wis., June 6-19.
A CHURCH of twenty-four members was recently organized at Spencer, Iowa, by Brother N. C. Bergersen.
THE baptism of five candidates at Medaryville, Ind., where brother B. Hagle has been laboring, is noted in the Reporter.
A VERY successful young peoples' convention was held at the Boggstown (Ind.) Manual Training Academy, April 14-16.
A REPORT in the Banner, from Brother Hayward, who has been laboring at Prattville, Mich., says that six candidates were awaiting baptism.
IT has been decided to operate eight field tents in Ohio Conference this season; this in addition to placing one-half of its workers at the disposal of the General Conference.
THE Illinois Recorder says: "It has been decided to hold a six weeks' summer training-school for teachers at Berrien Springs, Mich. It is to commence in the latter part of June."
ON the last Sabbath afternoon of the West Australian camp-meeting, after a solemn service conducted by Pastor Hennig in the tent, twenty-seven were baptized in the East Fremantle baths.
THE brethren at Muncie, Ind., are raising funds for a new house of worship. The Reporter of the 10th inst. notes that over twelve hundred dollars had been raised, and they were still soliciting.
IT is encouraging to learn that the Review, our good church paper, has now a larger circulation than ever before. But it ought to be still larger. Address, 222 N. Capitol Street, Washington, D. C. Terms: One year, $1.50; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents.
FROM Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Brother A. H. Piper writes to the Mission Board that the interest is greater than it has been for some time. The new church building, twenty by forty feet, is well filled at each service. The native children in Sister Gooding's school are making excellent progress in all lines of work.
FROM Mexico, Brother G. M. Brown writes: "We have two new families of Sabbath-keepers in San Luis Potosi. The men are tinsmiths, and they say they posted a sign with letters five inches high, 'No work done on Saturday.' It is encouraging to see the interest springing up in different places, and to read the letters that are constantly coming in to the office."
ONE of our missionaries in Africa, Brother W. S. Hyatt, says: "'Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.' Ps. 68:31. Long years ago the Lord saw the darkness of the African race, and He inspired His servant to prophesy of a time when this poor, despised people would reach out after the Lord. And now we are told that 'Ethiopia is stretching out her hands unto God.' The time has come for God's truth to go to a hungry people. With outstretched hands Ethiopia stands begging for the Bread of Life. Shall we give it? or shall we treat this appeal the same as many do the ordinary beggar when asking for bread?"
WRITING to the South African Missionary of the work in that country, Brother G. W. Shone says: "As an example of how the black races are reaching out after the truth here in the Cape colony, the Ama Xosa (kafirs) are calling for us to come to them without delay and teach them these wonderful truths contained in the Word of God. We have been holding open-air meetings in the native location here (East London). The Word of the Lord was with power, and the people are anxious for the pure teaching of the Word. Two headmen, representing two different tribes in the Transkei, have begged of us to go to them and teach their people these things which they have heard us preach from the Word of God. One of them, who is himself a lay preacher and has a number of schools under his supervision, after listening to the preaching of the Word, said: 'I don't know anything about my Bible, and I am a preacher.' (This he said speaking of himself.) These tribes living in the Cape Colony have been in contact with civilization and Christianity for the past two centuries, but are now waking up to the fact that they have been feeding on chaff, and they are reaching out after something better."