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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 10, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE brethren at Menominee, Mich., are building a new house of worship.
AT the last quarterly-meeting at Ladoga, Iowa, two members were added to the church.
THE fourth annual meeting of the West Michigan Conference will be held at Otsego, January 18-21.
THE Sioux Falls, S. D., Cataract of December 15 contains, as editorial, a two-column article on the Sabbath question, written by Brother G. W. Rogers.
TWO young men were recently baptized at Fertile, Iowa, by Brother E. G. Olsen. They will both become students at Union College. Three members were added to the church the day previous.
FROM the Southwestern Union Record we learn of the recent death of Brother S. S. Ryles, the only colored ordained minister of our denomination in that union conference. Tuberculosis was the cause.
THREE members were added to the Cleveland, Ohio, church during the week of prayer. Brother D. E. Lindsey says: "Our young people are doing a good work, and the Sabbath-school is full of interest."
FROM Amory, Miss., where Brethren S. A. Jordan and W. H. Sebastian have been laboring during the autumn, they report that twelve have taken their stand for the truth. Others are interested, and there is a good prospect for a school.
THE new Sanitarium, Loma Linda, near Redlands, Cal., is now favored with the presence, counsel, and instruction of Brother S. N. Haskell and wife. The people of California will welcome these old-time laborers back to their former field.
BROTHER H. W. COTTRELL, until recently president of Atlantic Union Conference, gave us a short call on the 26th ult. As stated in a former issue, he comes to take up labor in the Pacific Union Conference, and will attend the session in Portland, Ore., in February. Brethren A. G. Daniells and G. A. Irwin are also booked for attendance.
Writing to the Canadian Union Messenger from Brantford, Ont., December 3, Brother W. Dredge says: "I was at Paris three days last week, and by the help of the Lord sold 173 SIGNS OF THE TIMES, which makes about 1,100 special SIGNS sold already in and about Brantford during the Missionary Campaign. I love to sell the SIGNS. People will buy a five-cent paper when they will not buy a book. It will take about two more days to finish Paris."
A LETTER from Sister Perry, written from Lima, Peru, says, "We reached this place November 13 after being on the water thirty-seven days, and were allowed to land November 16. A Spanish brother came out to the boat to meet us as soon as the quarantine was lifted, and took us to his home. He helped us in securing some rooms where we will stay until we find a place to locate. Our courage is good and our trust is in the Lord. Address us Lima, Peru."—South Dakota Worker.
Writing to the Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa, from China, Brother W. C. Hankins says: "Our little chapel here in Kulangsu is but a few steps from our door. We have only fifteen or twenty members in our Sabbath-school, but our contributions might be a good example for many of our American schools, for we often receive four or five hundred cash, and a cash looks nearly as large to the people here as a penny does to our people at home. And not only do they contribute freely, but each one pays an honest tithe."
A REPORT of quarterly visits in Mississippi by Brother W. H. Sebastian, mentions the following: Vicksburg, one candidate baptized; Jackson, five waiting baptism; Yazoo City, three baptized; Greenville, four baptized; four others (among them a Baptist minister and wife) are waiting baptism, and the two last mentioned are going to school at Vicksburg. At Columbus two were baptized; at Crawford, one new believer was waiting baptism; and at Brookhaven, there were four new believers. At Greenwood there was one believer, who was of good courage.
ON special appeal of Brother F. I. Richardson, president of Arizona Conference, for help in that unworked field, the East Michigan Conference has decided to send Brother P. C. Hayward down there and support him one year. And the brethren of East Michigan now feel so much encouraged because of this decision to reach out to regions beyond that are more needy, that they contemplate sending another worker to some other field next year. If this spirit of missionary work continues, we expect to see also an increased periodical work by the local societies. That is the logic of it.
THE following statistical summary may be of interest: Seventh-day Adventists have local conferences in six different countries: in North America, 52; in South America, 2; in Europe and Great Britain, 13; in South Africa, 2; in Australia, 7; in the West Indies, 2. Fifty foreign missions are located in India, Burma, Central China, Japan, East Indies, Eastern, Central, and Western Africa, and various islands. From 11 publishing houses—located in the United States, Europe, Australia, India, South Africa, and South America—publications are issued in forty-three languages, in the form of periodicals, bound books, pamphlets, and tracts. There are at present over fifty sanitariums, and over forty medical missionary treatment-rooms under the auspices of the denomination. Of educational institutions there were, at last official report, 451 primary schools, 30 intermediate schools, and nineteen colleges. The denomination has gained more in membership during the last ten years than in the preceding fifty years, and funds to support the work have increased correspondingly.