OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 3, 1905

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

THE West Michigan Herald says that on November 18 seven Emmanuel Missionary College students were baptized in the St. Joseph River.

IN the Pacific Union Recorder, Brother C. N. Martin reports four converts to the faith at Yuba City, Cal., three of whom were baptized.

DURING the week of prayer, meetings were held by the Mountain View Church in the Pacific Press chapel, altho the attendance was somewhat divided between that service and the series of lectures being delivered in a public hall by Brethren W. T. Knox and J. O. Corliss. The collection for missions amounted to about $360.

THE editor of the Christian Record, our paper for the blind, sends out another appeal to our brethren to assist in the work of giving the Gospel to this most unfortunate class of people. Those who desire to help in the good work can send donations to Miss Katie Coleman, College View, Neb., who is secretary for this work. There is a pressing need of funds.

OF the special numbers of our periodicals issued for the fall campaign, Northern Illinois Conference ordered as follows, as noted in the Recorder: Special SIGNS OF THE TIMES, 1,297 sets of four; Special Watchman, 245 sets; Sion's Vaktare (Swedish), 1,000 copies; Evangeliets Sendebud (Danish-Norwegian), 1,600 copies. This was the report up to December 4.

IN the Canadian Messenger, Brother W. R. Andrews reports that at the close of a series of tent-meetings in Gagetown, N. B., there were eleven who had taken a decided stand for the truth, and a Sabbath-school of fourteen members. Of the New Brunswick Conference he says: "The hearts of the people are full of hope, and the outlook for the future of the Maritime Conference is of an encouraging nature."

WRITING from Globe, A. T., Brother Walter Harper reports his usual success in canvassing. He notes fifty-two orders for books, large and small, helps, etc., in one day, amounting to $121.10. The next day the amount was $90. His orders, when actually at work, run from $250 to $300 per week—something over $3,000 since last August. Brother Harper always remembers to ask God for guidance in his work, and to give Him credit for the results. This is the secret of his success as a book canvasser.

BROTHER F. C. GILBERT, who is engaged in special work for the Jews, gives us this interesting information: "In the United States and its possessions, according to the most recent census, there are 1,418,813 Jews. And they are still coming into this country rapidly. There is a movement among the wealthy Jews in this country to bring in several million more. They are going west in great numbers." The Atlantic Union Conference is taking definite steps to do Gospel work among this people, and about sixty thousand copies of the tract, "Israel's Deliverer," have been circulated. Brother Gilbert is calling through the various conference papers, for co-operation in this work. Offerings for the free distribution of literature may be sent to Miss Jennie Thayer, South Lancaster, Mass., of whom tracts may be received.

THAT a medical convention should have for its leading thought the question, "Have ye received the Holy Ghost?" may seem strange to some people. Yet in noting the medical convention recently held at College View, Neb., the Reporter says: "The reception of the Holy Spirit was the key-note of every paper read at the medical convention, and of the discussions which followed their presentation. 'Have ye received the Holy Ghost?' This was made paramount to every other question, touching the qualification of the Christian physician, as well as of every other worker in God's cause. This was made the theme of a Bible study for ministers, doctors, and nurses each morning at 8 o'clock, and also of the public discourse each evening." Why should it not be so? A part of the Gospel commission is to heal the sick, and that part of the work needs the aid of the Spirit as much as any other. Then why should the Christian physician not seek that paramount endowment?