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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 4, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 18.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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Six candidates were baptized at Stevensville, Mont., by Brother W. A. Gosmer, on the 3d ult.
THE Dakota Worker says that Brother Conrad Reiswig reports the baptism of six new Sabbath keepers at Hosmer, S. D.
THE Canadian Publishing Association is now established at 167 Dundas Street, Toronto, Ont., where all Seventh-day Adventist publications can be procured.
THE Mount Vernon (Ohio) Academy announces a summer school from June 8 to July 20. Those interested can learn further particulars by writing to the academy.
WRITING to the Union Conference Record, from South Australia, Brother Wm. Woodford notes the organization of a church of twenty-nine members at Black Swamp.
THREE converts to the truth at Collins Center, N. Y., are reported in the Indicator, by Brother D. A. Ball. In Newfane he spoke twice in the Free Methodist church and once in the Baptist church.
Six new members recently united with the church at Birnamwood, Wis., as a result of meetings held by Brother Swin Swinson. He also notes that a family in another part of the country had accepted the faith through reading the SIGNS.
THE book business and stock of the Kansas and Missouri tract societies have been transferred to the Pacific Press Publishing Company. A full stock of the denominational publications is kept at the branch office, 18 W. Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo.
THE managers of the International Publishing Association, at College View, Neb., announce that they have now ready a number of tracts in various foreign languages. These ought to have a large circulation among the millions of foreigners in this country.
ON taking up the duties of president of the Pacific Union Conference, Brother W. B. White expects soon to move his family from Montana to Oakland, Cal., the headquarters of the Union Conference. Brother J. A. Holbrook, of College Place, Wash., is acting as president of Montana Conference, to fill the vacancy caused by Brother White's transfer to the Union Conference.
IN the Minnesota Worker Brother H. F. Phelps says: "Inasmuch as the evangelization of the world is to be an accomplished fact in this generation," more work must be done by the rank and file of the army of the Lord than has ever yet been done. Not any less work by the ministry; but far more by the laity. "Every member must become a worker, a paying member. Every member must bring in dividends for the Master."
WE have received a four-page sample of the special Southern Watchman for May. It is printed in two colors, is profusely illustrated, and the reading matter is "present truth" of a very important character. It will contain twenty-four pages; prices as follows: 5 to 24 copies, 4 cents each; 25 or more copies, 5 cents each. Address your state tract society, or the office of publication, 1025 Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tenn.
FROM a letter from Brother E. H. Wilbur, in the Workers' Bulletin, we learn that Brother J. N. Anderson is now holding meetings in Canton, China, speaking to the people in their own language. He also notes that Miss Ida Thompson is now conducting a school for girls. Brother Wilbur and wife, with others, are studying the Cantonese language at Hong-kong, preparatory to entering upon labor with the natives in Canton. In the meantime they canvass for our publications among the English-speaking people, of whom there are about 13,000 in Hong-kong.
WRITING from Norwood, N. C., where he has been conducting a school, to the Wisconsin Reporter, Brother E. R. Allen says: "If some who have them to spare would send us late, clean copies of the Review, SIGNS, Youth's Instructor, and Good Health, we could use many to good advantage. Every town here has from one to one-half dozen cotton mills that employ a great many hands. There is only one mill in this town, but its capacity will be doubled this summer. I go through it nearly every week, and when I have papers to give away all seem glad to get them. Three men in the mill are taking the SIGNS each week and paying for it. We hope soon to start a night school among the factory hands, many of whom can read only a little."
WHAT is represented as an unusual spirit of unity among missionaries in China is really an agreement by which all the denominations unite and divide the territory so that no one will be permitted to go onto another missionary's ground. On this point Dr. H. W. Miller, our medical missionary, says, in the Welcome Visitor: "But God has assigned us the world for our field, and we could not consent to be assigned a portion only of this earth as our field by a set of men who know not the truth we teach, nor keep God's holy Sabbath. But in our disregard for their plans they will eventually turn on us. We need not be aggressive to become conspicuous, but by standing firm by this truth we will become conspicuous, and we may expect persecution even from missionaries. But we have a God that is able to carry us through to the end, and He will do it."
The doctor is right in this matter. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof," and the message we have to deliver—the Gospel of the coming kingdom, together with the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus—is for the whole earth, "every nation and kindred and tongue and people." Therefore the earth is not ours to divide with those who ignore the message. Faithfulness to our trust demands that we see to it that the world be warned of coming events, and advised of the Lord's soon coming to redeem His people, and to execute judgment on the ungodly. The promulgation of a full Gospel is especially our work, because no others are as yet willing to espouse it, and "the King's business requireth haste." "The coming of the Lord draweth nigh."