OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 8, 1905

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

At the last quarterly meeting of the church in Cleveland, Ohio, three candidates were baptized by the pastor, Brother D. E. Lindsey.

A CHURCH of seventeen members was organized at Hamilton, Ohio, January 7, by Brother H. H. Burkholder, president of the conference.

On a recent Sabbath, seven members were added to the church at Omaha, Neb. The Reporter says that "more than twenty-five new ones have taken hold there during the past three months."

DECEMBER 31, a church of sixteen members was organized at Guthrie, O. T., by Brother A. E. Field. Sister Sophia V. Parker, who has been doing Bible work there, reported a good prospect for early additions to the church.

H. A. DIKE, of College View, Neb., solicits Braille copying for the blind, in English, German, Danish, Latin, Greek, and Spanish. Any blind in foreign countries desiring a key to their language, where none has yet been made, will be supplied free, if he can get an ink copy of the writing.

WE note with pleasure the recent improvement in Rarama, our Fijian paper, published at Suva Vou, by Brother J. E. Fulton. Rarama signifies "light," and the paper, whose establishment has been fraught with so much labor, is indeed a channel of light to that people. There are now about one hundred and fifty Sabbath-keepers in the Fijian group, with four organized churches.

THE brethren and sisters who attended the late bookmen's convention at Mountain View, Cal., were given interesting details of the work in Washington, D. C., by Brethren W. C. White and S. N. Curtiss. Brother J. E. White told of the work of the Southern Missionary Society in behalf of the colored people, in a way that called forth a substantial response. The wants of the cause in Alaska were presented by Brother A. M. Dart. The needs of British Columbia, especially among the Indians, were urged by Brother J. L. Wilson, and a donation was quietly raised to assist in the purchase of a tract of land on which to establish an educational enterprise adjoining the Tsimptean Indian Reservation. And Brother J. H. Behrens made an earnest appeal for a more aggressive work in the Hawaiian Islands. These were a few of the good things that came on as et ceteras to the original program.

A RATHER novel school is noted in the Wisconsin Reporter. It is a family school of nine children, with Sister Eloise Williams as teacher. The family are not Sabbath-keepers, but the father has given the farm and all the stock into the charge of Sister Williams, who will conduct it as a school for the children. The farm consists of 160 acres, 65 acres cleared, and the rest pasture. There are on it 15 cows, 10 horses, 14 calves, 60 chickens, and some sheep. The boys are able to do the work, and Sister Williams is to be overseer and schoolteacher. The father and mother decided that this was the best practical education they could give their children, and the school is conducted on the principle of our denominational schools. Since Sister Williams took charge, the Sabbath is observed on the place. Writing to the Reporter, this all-round teacher says: "I am of good courage, and know the Lord has sent me to this place to lift up the standard of truth."

THERE is published at Cincinnati a semi-monthly journal, entitled United States Trade Reports. It makes a specialty of giving information concerning the most reliable and efficient institutions in the country—where the best utilitarian articles are manufactured, and the best places to find various things that people want. In a recent number it gave an unsolicited notice of Union College, at College View (near Lincoln), Neb. It not only gave the notice free and voluntarily, but it asked for, and used, an illustration, showing the main college building, which is a Seventh-day Adventist institution. Here is a specimen utterance: "Having made a careful investigation of the standing and character of all the leading institutions of the country, and with due respect to all those which offer good advantages, we beg to draw our readers' attention to the Union College, of College View, Neb." This is followed by high commendations of the faculty, the courses of study, the moral tone, the character of the buildings, and the general efficiency of the institution. This unsolicited reference is a worthy notice of a worthy school, and indicates that the Journal's notices of various classes of enterprises are worthy of attention.