p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

In the Workers' Record, Brother R. C. Porter, president of Missouri Conference, reports the baptism of seven candidates at St. Louis.

A letter from Brother G. E. Langdon, who, with Brother G. W. Rine, has been laboring at Cloverdale, Cal., notes the addition of three to the ranks of believers.

The labors of Brethren W. W. Williams, E. L. Sanford, and Milo Emmerson, together with Sisters Sanford and Maud Dortch, at Richmond, Ky., followed by a camp-meeting, resulted in thirteen persons taking their stand for the truth. Afterward Brother Sanford and company pitched their tent at Panola, where six more accepted the faith.

In reporting progress of a tent-meeting at Sunset, Ark., Brother H. Clay Griffin says: "My tent is pitched on land belonging to a Roman Catholic, just across the road from his store. He is a justice of the peace and post-master. My cottage tent is in his front yard, and I am boarding with him. He and his boys have helped to put up the tent and seat it."

Tell the people. This thought is suggested by a statement from one of our conferences showing the condition of the conference, and its improvement in finances the last few months. We even wished that it was fuller; but it was, perhaps, sufficient for that conference. Let the people know, not only the assets, but the liabilities; not only the profits, but the deficits.

Under date of September 14, Brother H. Nicola writes from Battle Creek, Mich.: "The good work here at the old battle-field is yet going forward. God is blessing. Souls are being converted. I had the privilege of baptizing seven candidates on the 9th inst., and several others will go forward soon. At the late West Michigan camp-meeting forty-one were baptized."

At the late meeting of Wisconsin Conference, officers were elected as follows: President, C. McReynolds; secretary and treasurer, R. T. Dowsett; field secretary, A. J. Olsen; superintendent church and Sabbath-school department, Mary E. Cook; secretary and treasurer tract society, N. P. Neilsen; executive committee—C. McReynolds, R. T. Dowsett, N. P. Neilsen, F. F. Peterson, C. P. Farnsworth, A. W. Hallock, W. J. Pflugradt.

At the late camp-meeting held in connection with the Quebec Conference meeting, fourteen candidates were baptized. The conference is clear of debt, and has a little surplus on hand to start the new year's work. Officers were elected as follows: President, H. E. Rickard; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Libby; secretary Sabbath-school department, Cynthia E. Jones; executive committee—H. E. Rickard, S. A. Farnsworth, W. H. Libby, D. Dingham, H. McCleary.

At the recent meeting of New York Conference the election of officers resulted as follows: President, S. H. Lane; secretary and treasurer, T. E. Bowen; secretary educational department, H. W. Carr; secretary religious liberty department, J. S. Wightman; secretary Sabbath-school department, Mrs. L. M. Calkins; state agent, H. S. Merchant; conference committee—F. H. DeViney, H. W. Carr, Courtland D. Green, H. D. Church, William Groff, F. W. Gotts. Delegates to Atlantic Union Conference, F. H. DeViney, C. C. Harris, B. E. Fisk, J. S. Wightman.

Writing to the Record, Coorangbong, N. S. W., from Lau District, Fiji, Sister Myrtle Parker says: "Our young people will be interested in a blind boy who is yet in his teens. He is the son of a chief. It is less than two years since he gave his heart to the Lord, and gave up tobacco and the native grog, and he now desires to fit himself to proclaim the closing message to his people. He has a ready mind and is committing books of the Bible to memory. Rätu Müdre is already a good help in conducting services. Pray for him, dear young people, that he may keep pure and be kept from the wiles of the enemy."

From the Messenger, organ of the N. S. W. Conference, we take the following items of interest: A church of thirty-six members witnesses to the efforts expended in the recent camp-meeting and tent-meetings in the vicinity of North Sydney. A church of twenty-six members has been organized at Hornsby by Brethren S. M. Cobb and F. W. Paap. Churches have also been organized at Forbes and Parkes—the former with thirteen members, and the latter with twenty-two. Brother W. J. McGowan has been engaged in the work in these places. The baptism of six persons at Grafton, by Brother J. L. McElhaney, is also noted.

A report of the young people's work in Cleveland, Ohio, noted in the Visitor, says: "A number of the members have been actively engaged in the distribution of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and other literature, delivering the papers weekly, thus enabling them to keep in touch with the needs of those interested. This often leads to Bible readings, or to the sale of our larger books. The society's method of distribution has been that of placing wall-pockets in railway and street-car waiting rooms, as well as in the post-office. After placing a few of these pockets in the railway offices, the railway officials requested that more waiting rooms be supplied with such pockets. We might state, however, that the committee had some difficulty in obtaining permission to place these pockets in some of the best station rooms until they had convinced the railway officials that they were neatly constructed and would be regularly cared for by the society."