p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 31, 1906

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE permanent address of Brother D. T. Shireman is Toluca, N. C., via Cleveland Mills.

AT the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Madge, Texas, eight members were added.

A POSTAL card, dated January 15, says that at a meeting conducted by Brother Wm. Kennedy and L. A. Spring, at Palisade, Colo., twenty-six persons professed conversion, and twenty-two were baptized.

A NEW church building is being erected at Keene, Texas. This will add to the facilities of the academy, as the chapel can now be used for class and other school purposes. The enrolment of the school on January 8 was thirty-seven more than one year previous.

WRITING to the Welcome Visitor, Brother H. W. Miller says: "At present there are eight workers and one mission in Canton, China, which is the largest city in this empire. There are two workers and one mission in Amoy, in the Province of Fukien. In the Province of Honan, the oldest province in China, there are nine workers and four missions, making a total of nineteen missionaries and six missions."

FROM the Watchman we learn that Brother F. R. Schaeffer, who was vice-president and acting president most of last year in Mississippi Conference, has been elected president for the present year. The conference has prospered during the year, making good progress in the way of membership and clearing off its indebtedness. Brother and Sister Schaeffer were formerly successful workers in California, and we wish them abundant success in their difficult Southern field.

AT one of the meetings in Cleveland, Ohio, during the week of prayer, when a letter from Africa had been read, a poor sister arose and said, "I will give a half year's support for a native worker." Noting this incident in the Visitor, Brother D. E. Lindsey says: "The result was that, in addition to our usual annual offering, we raised over one hundred dollars to support a native worker for Brother Anderson in the heart of Africa." Were it not for the poor, the Gospel would not go to the world even as speedily as it does. If all the people in the world were rich, the Gospel could hardly be given universal proclamation by means of human agency.

WRITING to the Watchman from the Alabama Conference meeting, Elder Geo. I. Butler notes the election of Brother A. J. Haysmer as president for the current conference year. Brother Haysmer's experience as a president of a conference in the West Indies will stand him in hand in this field. On account of failing health, Brother W. L. McNeely was no longer able to bear the burden he has carried for several years. Sister Helen McKinnon was elected secretary and treasurer. In connection with the president, Brethren McNeely, W. S. Cruzan, and W. J. Blake were chosen as an executive committee. The conference office address is Fort Wayne.

WRITING to his father in this office, from Leicester, England, Brother J. D. Baker notes encouraging results from the work of himself and wife in giving treatments to the sick. This line of missionary work is making friends for our sanitarium there, and for the truth, both with the patients treated and the physicians of the city. The week of prayer there began December 30. The month of December is the time the brethren there devote largely to the special circulation of their periodicals—Present Truth and Good Health. Of these about 75,000 each are sold during that month; hence they postponed their week of prayer exercises until the season when everything is quiet and they can better attend the meetings.