OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 34.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

AT the recent quarterly-meeting of the church in Oklahoma City, O. T., five members were added to the church, four by baptism.

MEETINGS held at Chandler, O. T., by Brother A. E. Field, have resulted in six new Sabbath-keepers and an organized Sabbath-school.

THE church at Etna, Wash., which was organized last March with eight members, now has twenty-eight, who expect soon to erect a church-school building. The labors of Brother A. J. Stover have been mainly instrumental in this work.

BROTHER T. H. DAVIS, of Esmeralda, Cal., has returned to South America. He spent several years canvassing in Chile, where he was quite successful, but was obliged to return to California for a time on account of his health. He goes now to Quito, Equador.

THREE members were united by baptism to the church at East Liverpool, Ohio, at the last quarterly-meeting. These are fruit of meetings being held there by Brethren C. C. Webster and F. M. Fairchild. Others have commenced the observance of the Sabbath “according to the commandment.”

BROTHER A. G. MILLER, who has for five years been a faithful and trusted servant in the office of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, acting as secretary of the corporation and in various other positions, sailed for his native home in Australia, July 28. He expected to connect with the Bible Echo Publishing Company, in Melbourne.

IN the Pacific Union Recorder we find the following report by Brother O. Soule, of Roseburg, Ore.:

“Six adults and four children have taken their stand for God’s commandments at South Deer Creek. A Sabbath-school has been organized, and regular Sabbath services are held, as a result of a series of meetings I have just completed there.”

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FROM San Pasqual, Cal., Brother F. I. Richardson writes, under date of August 4:

“A four weeks’ meeting at this place, closing July 26, resulted in the acceptance of the truth by twenty-six persons. Nineteen were baptized, and the church seemed to be much benefited. Seldom have I seen greater evidence of the deep movings of the Spirit of God; not in excitement, but, as described by the Psalmist: ‘The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.’”

OF the work in Mississippi, Brother H. G. Thurston writes as follows to the Pacific Union Recorder:

“The Lord is still at work in Mississippi. July 2, five were baptized in Laurel, where we held our last series of meetings, and last Sabbath five were baptized at Ellisville, where we held our first series of meetings last fall. On the 10th inst. a church of seventeen members was organized at Ellisville. This makes the fifth church organized in this conference since last November. The others were brought out largely as a result of our mission school work.”

IN connection with the meetings held at Modesto, Cal., by Brother C. M. Gardiner, a Sabbath-school was organized July 23, with twenty-four members. At one of the meetings a gentleman arose and gave the following testimony:

“I must speak of the light that has flooded my soul the past two weeks at these meetings. I have been a member of the Baptist Church for many years, and at different times have asked my pastor why we worshiped on the first day of the week, and he would explain and smooth it over, not quite satisfactorily to my conscience. But now it is clear to me that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and I can not resist the Spirit. This is the first Sabbath I have ever kept in my life. I thank God for the light, and mean to walk in it. Pray for me.”