OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 5, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 14.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE addition of five members to the church at Altona, Texas, is noted in the Union Record by Brother J. R. Bagby.

IN the Indiana Reporter, Brother J. F. Olmstead notes the addition of four new Sabbath-keepers through his missionary labors. A number of others are very favorably impressed by the truth.

MEETINGS at Senjen, Minn., are having such a measure of success that plans are being laid for a new church building. The work there is being conducted by Brethren E. M. Chapman and George L. Budd.

BROTHER W. E. FLODING, who is laboring in Samoa, is giving most of his time to circulating the new Samoan Book, "Christ our Saviour." The natives are highly pleased with the book, and as many as have money purchase it. The native pastors use it in preaching. In consideration of the receipt of a free-copy, some of the pastors recommend the book to their congregations, and also secure orders for it.

THE officers of Pacific Union Conference are taking steps to utilize the opportunity of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, at Portland, Oregon, for the dissemination of important Gospel truth. Arrangements are being made for a vigorous campaign. Brother F. M. Burg, president of Western Oregon Conference, as chairman of the Special Fair Committee, has given a detailed statement of plans in the Pacific Union Recorder, and has contributed another article to the Review and Herald, to which attention is invited. Any who wish to donate to this important object will please remit to W. V. Sample, 285 Salmon Street, Portland, Ore.

THE Hinsdale Sanitarium is a new institution located seventeen miles west of Chicago, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. It is an institution utilizing especially those natural curative agents included under the general term "physiological therapeutics." The establishment of this institution was made possible by the generous gift of Hon. C. B. Kimbell, of Hinsdale. Mr. Kimbell is president of the board of trustees, and our Dr. David Paulson, so well known throughout the country, is medical superintendent. An illustrated booklet, containing full information, will be sent on application. Address, Hinsdale Sanitarium, or David Paulson, M.D., Hinsdale, Ill.

THE Gospel Herald says: "It has been decided that the principal line of work to be carried forward by the Southern Missionary Society is the establishment and maintenance of mission schools among the colored people; and, altho at times the necessities of the work may demand care by the society for other lines of work, yet the mission school work is emphatically the most important field for its efforts. These mission schools must be established in cities, villages, and in the country. . . . It is the principle of our society never to let go of a school, when once it is undertaken, until it has become a success, no matter how discouraging the circumstances may be. And we have never been disappointed in the end. But there must be teachers prepared for those schools, and funds must be provided sufficient to carry them on successfully. . . . There are hundreds of churches in the United States which would be benefited spiritually, if each one would assume the expense of one of these schools." The office of the Society is at Edgefield, Tenn.

BROTHER G. A. IRWIN, president of the Australasian Union Conference, who had just arrived in America the day before, gave an interesting address in the church at Oakland, Cal., on Sabbath, March 18. He told of his long journey from Australia through the East Indies to Singapore, Hongkong, and Manila, and thence to San Francisco on a government transport. A striking feature of his address was the information that there are many islands in the sea, containing numerous inhabitants, of which the geographies tell us nothing, which are not even marked on the maps known to the general public. The inhabitants of most of these islands have their own peculiar languages or dialects. In considering what to do that all these comparatively unknown people may receive a knowledge of the truth in the apparently short time allotted to the work, the speaker was impressed with the importance of the gift of tongues. And indeed this is not improbable as the "latter rain" of the Spirit increases in power, which depends more or less on the consecration of the Lord's people. Brother Irwin dwelt impressively on the importance of Singapore and Canton, China, as missionary centers, and especially on the importance of aggressive effort in the Philippines, which seem to have been providentially opened for the entering of the Gospel of the kingdom.