OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 1, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 44.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE school at Bozeman, Mont., is announced to begin November 1.

AT Stowell, Wis., September 23, three persons were baptized by Brother F. F. Peterson.

FOURTEEN converts are reported at Melrose, Mont., where Brethren W. H. Holden and S. H. Kime have been laboring.

IN the West Michigan Herald Brethren R. C. Horton and M. S. Burnham report good meetings at Benton Harbor, seven candidates baptized being partial fruits of their labor.

IN the Montana Bivouac Brother J. A. Holbrook, president of that conference, notes the baptism of two candidates at Spring Gulch; three at Clinton, and three at Rimini; besides the conversion of two young girls at Philipsburg.

THE East Caribbean Gleaner contains a report of the baptism of seven persons at San Fernando, Trinidad, by Brother D. E. Wellman. Of the candidates were an East Indian mother and daughter. Mention is also made of the baptism of five candidates at Indian Walk.

FROM British Guiana, South America, there recently came an appeal to the East Caribbean Conference for a teacher. The appeal was made by some Arawaks, who represent about a thousand aboriginal Indians, who dwell in the Guiana forests. There is already a church organization among them.

THE following request of our brethren and sisters is from Brother O. H. McCrillis, Bethel, Wis.: "You who are living near the insane asylums, will you not place on the reading tables in the wards of these needy places, some good reading matter, such as the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and Life Boat. Such reading as will be easily understood I know will be appreciated by many."

THE Educational and Young People's Department of the Central Union Conference will continue the Home Improvement Courses conducted with marked success last year. These include courses in General Culture and Special Training. All who desire to take the General Culture Course should write at once to M. E. Kern, College View, Neb. Those desiring the Special Training Course should address B. E. Huffman, College View, Neb. The outlines for these courses will be found in the Educational Messenger (College View, 50 cents a year), beginning October 15, to continue eight months.

IN the Workers' Record Brother R. C. Porter, president of Missouri Conference, notes that in various points in the southeastern part twenty persons had accepted the faith. Also that at Sedalia, eleven have been added to the church as a result of labor by Brother D. E. Scoles after camp-meeting. Also, seven additions at Marceline, where Brother W. T. Millman had been laboring; four at Kansas City, under Brother E. A. Merrell's labors; two added to St. Louis German church, and six to the English church, under the labors of Brother M. E. George. At Marceline a Sabbath-school of seventeen members has been organized.

ONE by one the faithful laborers in the cause of God are laid to rest. Of the more prominent ministers, the latest death we have to record is that of Brother Nels Peter Nelson, president of Southwestern Union Conference for the past two years. He was aged 61 years, 8 months, and 16 days. He had been failing in health for several months. His faithful wife, who was very nearly his own age, fell asleep only twenty-two days before her husband, at Keene, Texas. Brother and Sister Nelson accepted the truth at Swan Lake, S. D., under the labors of Brother J. F. Hansen, and, when Dakota Conference was organized, he was chosen a member of the first conference committee. He afterward served six years as president of that conference. Then for five years he was president of Nebraska Conference, which he resigned to take charge of the Southwestern Union Conference, at the same time acting as president of Texas Conference. He leaves five sons and one daughter, all of whom are faithful adherents to the religion of their parents. Andrew is president of Oklahoma Conference, and Dr. N. P. has charge of our sanitarium at Frederikshavn, Denmark. Ida has been a valuable assistant to her father, besides holding official position in conference Sabbath-school work. The youngest son, William, is connected with the faculty of Walla Walla College. Brother Nelson died at College View, Neb., where funeral services were conducted by Brethren J. H. Morrison and E. T. Russell. The remains were taken to his old home at Swan Lake, S. D., for interment.