OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 13.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE church training-school at Battle Creek, Mich., has an attendance of 180 students.

As THIS paper goes to press the Pacific Union Conference is in session at Healdsburg, Cal.

THE baptism of nine candidates at York, West Australia, is reported by Brother L. V. Finster, in the Record.

IN the Illinois Recorder, Brother O. S. Hadley reports the baptism of three candidates recently, who united with the West Side, Chicago, church.

THE officers of the school board for the Training-school for Christian Workers, to be established in Washington, D. C., are as follows: Chairman, A. G. Daniells; secretary and treasurer, W. T. Bland; financial secretary, J. S. Washburn.

SINCE Brother I. J. Hankins returned to South Africa from the United States, he has been made president of the Cape Colony Conference, and placed on the editorial staff of the South African Sentinel. After an absence of three years, he was given a warm welcome by his old friends and fellow laborers. The Sentinel also announces the return of three other former laborers in that field—Brethren G. W. Webb, W. C. Walston, and T. J. Gibson.

THE Southwestern Union Record says: "Brother C. W. Cutter, of Hot Springs, Ark., has been using one hundred copies of the SIGNS weekly since disposing of five hundred copies of the Capital and Labor issue. He reports quite an interest in the city as a result of circulating the papers, and feels that the Lord is truly blessing the work, and that the way is being opened for a series of meetings. Hot Springs is a great city and a great health resort; many going there from all parts of the United States in search of health."

A RECENT letter from Brother J. M. Hyatt, a missionary at Gold Coast, Africa, says: "One would think that in coming to the 'Dark Continent' he would leave all brass bands, drum corps, lodges, and the like behind; but such is not the case. At a recent turn-out of a lodge, I saw several suits that cost more than forty dollars each. These are some of the things that these people have learned of those that come here to teach them. Surely they need to learn to 'love not the world, neither the things of the world.' Frequently in talking to them of the way they live, morally and physically, they point to the European men and women, and say that they do the same. Hence they do not feel themselves behind in this particular. Christmas is a very bad time for the native; everything that can make a noise takes part in the confusion. In 1902 some were killed outright, many others badly hurt. The one just past was not as bad, as the government shut up all the rum shops, and patrolled the streets with police. Originally the native knew nothing of Christmas, but since that has been brought to him, he does just as he sees those do that brought it. Rum is surely the great curse of this country. The natives respect those that come to teach them. We are sure from present indications that the message will prepare some for the day of the Lord."