OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 11.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

ON the 13th ult. a Sabbath-school of thirteen members was organized at Julian, Neb.

A CAMP-MEETING was held at Plymouth, N. Z., beginning January 14. Brethren G. A. Irwin and E. W. Farnsworth, of Australia, were present.

A LETTER to the Pacific Coast Recorder from Brother Frank S. Bond, of Sabadell, Spain, notes the decision of four ladies to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.

IN the Kansas Worker, Brother C. McReynolds reports the organization of a church of fourteen members at Great Bend. He also reports encouraging progress at the new sanitarium at Wichita, and it has been decided to erect a new building.

THE death of Brother George B. Wheeler, at South Lancaster, Mass., February 7, is announced in the Gleaner. He was formerly a Baptist minister, but for the last twelve years has been an earnest and efficient laborer in the cause of "present truth" as a Seventh-day Adventist.

A NEW house of worship was dedicated at Hopewell, Ore., January 31. Brethren H. W. Decker and C. J. Cole were present, Brother Decker preaching the sermon. There was a large attendance, and Brother Cole supplemented the service by a week's meetings. Four converts to the faith were the visible fruits of the sowing.

THE "Eighth Annual Announcement of Avondale School for Christian Workers," at Cooranbong, N. S. W., is a handsome illustrated pamphlet setting forth the advantages of the school. It is a credit to the Avondale Press, an adjunct of the school. The second term of the present year will commence April 12, Prof. C. W. Irwin, principal.

OF the work among the Finns in Minnesota, Brother N. G. Henrickson says in the Worker: "The Finns have less knowledge of the English than any other people I so far have met in the United States. Only the children and a few of the older ones talk English. Nearly always the children interpret for me. There are many Finns here, scattered from about forty miles north to ten miles south of New York Mills."

AT the recent session of the Northern Union Conference, held at Melbank, S. D., the meetings were conducted by Brother A. G. Daniells, president of the General Conference, owing to the prolonged illness of Brother C. W. Flaiz, president of the Union Conference. New officers were elected, as follows: President, R. W. Underwood, for several years president of Pennsylvania Conference; vice-president, C. A. Burman, now president of South Dakota Conference; secretary and treasurer, Alice H. Robinson. Other officers to be appointed by the executive committee.

REPORTING a recent visit to the church at Rochester, N. Y., Brother S. H. Lane says: "On Friday evening I met Brother A. D. Gilbert, who is working in the interests of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. He presented the subject the evening of the Sabbath very forcibly, and the night after the Sabbath went out with several workers on the streets selling the papers. Quite a number were sold. He is very earnest in his work, and the SIGNS is certainly accomplishing much good. The Sabbath meeting was well attended, and it was a good one. Brother Gilbert left us the night after the Sabbath, being called away unexpectedly to St. Louis."