OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 16.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

FIVE members were recently added to the church at Mount Olivet, Ind., under the labors of Brother F. M. Roberts.

FOUR persons have accepted the faith at Senjen, Minn., under the labors of Brethren E. M. Chapman and Geo. L. Budd.

THE brethren at Herman, Minn., have lately organized a Sabbath-school of twenty-five members, a number of whom are recent adherents to the truth.

AFTER more than forty years of active missionary life, Sister Amelia Shireman, wife of Brother D. T. Shireman, died at Hildebran, N. C., March 24, of cancer of the stomach, in the sixty-sixth year of her age.

A RECENT visitor at our office for a few days was Brother W. D. Salisbury, manager of the Echo Publishing Company, our denominational publishing house at Melbourne, Australia. Brother Salisbury is on his way to Washington, to attend the General Conference in May.

SABBATH, April 1, was an occasion of gratification to the brethren and sisters at Oakland, Cal., where they were privileged to celebrate all the ordinances of the Lord's house. Two candidates were baptized just before engaging in the ordinances of humility and the Lord's Supper. There was a good attendance on this occasion.

WRITING from Kingston, Jamaica, in December, Brother J. B. Beckner reported that the Port Antonio church had been dedicated the month before, and they hoped to dedicate two other churches soon. These would bring the number up to six churches that were completed during the year. Brother Beckner says, "The brethren who have done the work have truly made sacrifices."

SCANDINAVIA, Manitoba, is a scattered colony of about one hundred families of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish people. Brother J. C. Christiansen is now engaged in labor there, and reports finding five Sabbath-keepers in the colony, who have rendered him needed assistance. A branch of the Canadian Northern Railroad is being built from Neepawa to Alberta, through parts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan.

FROM a report of labor at Berrien Springs, Mich., by Brethren W. E. Videto and R. C. Horton, in the Herald, we cull this paragraph: "Our meeting continues here with good interest. The attendance runs from sixty to two hundred. Two prominent members of the Methodist Church have taken their stand with us and are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. They applied for letters from the Methodist Church and they have been granted. They are happy in the Lord and praising Him for the truth which is so precious to them."

THE General Conference to be held at Tacoma Park, Washington, D. C., will be a very important event in the history of our work. Weighty matters pertaining to every branch of the work will require consideration, and the prayers of the brethren everywhere are essential, to the end that the spirit of wisdom, harmony, and devotion to the cause may prevail. The time of the conference is set for May 11-30. It will be a representative gathering from all quarters of the globe. The proceeding will be published exclusively in the Review, 222 N. Capitol Street, Washington, D. C. 50 cents for three months. Send orders immediately.

FROM Cuba, Brother J. M. Clark writes: "It is going to be far more difficult to give the message to Cuba because of the delay. Every year increases the difficulty. While the sea breezes, good drainage, and sanitation in the cities have helped to make this a very healthful island, the enormous use of tobacco by both sexes from early life, the fried foods, and strong drinks, make sickness much more common among the Cubans than among the Americans. While the majority of the people are Catholics, few attend church or care very much about religious matters. There are good openings for schools and sanitariums. Many hundreds continue to come."

BROTHER G. A. IRWIN, president of Australasian Union Conference, spoke to the Mountain View church in our office chapel Sabbath and Sunday evening, April 1 and 2, giving a quite elaborate account of his recent voyage from Australia to Singapore, to Hongkong and Canton, China, and via Manila and Honolulu to San Francisco. He gathered considerable information concerning the millions of people in that vast region who know not the Lord. This will be reported to the General Conference at Washington, and will itself be a strong appeal for more aggressive work in that field. He noted the fact that labor among the natives in those numerous islands, crude as is their condition, gives as good and as permanent results as that bestowed upon the white race in other fields. It must be remembered, however, that appeals for laborers to the General Conference or mission board will be of little avail unless these bodies are backed by the wills and means of the brethren at large. The people must make the responses to these Macedonian cries, else they can not be answered in a very substantial manner.

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