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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jan 24, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 4.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

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At Ligonier, Ind., Brother J. C. Harris recently baptized three candidates.
THE brethren at Logansport, Ind., have secured a lot on which to erect a house of worship, and have raised part of the money for the building.
DURING the week of prayer, four members were added to the church at Spring Valley, S. D., and others began the observance of the Sabbath.
THE new Sabbath-keepers at Mansfield, Ohio, who came out during the camp-meeting and tent-meetings last fall, are contemplating a church organization.
A NEW school building erected by the brethren at Robinson, Wis., was dedicated December 31. A new school building has also been erected at Champion, and a school is now in progress.
A CHURCH of thirteen members was organized at Powell, Ohio, November 11, by Brother H. H. Burkholder, president of the conference, and since that time eight more have accepted the faith.
THROUGH a short series of meetings at La Farge, Wis., by Brethren F. F. Petersen and M. H. Stearns, six persons have taken their stand on "the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
THE Welcome Visitor notes a marked increase in the attendance at church-schools in Ohio the past year, with a very encouraging outlook. The value of the church-school as a means of giving our children a Christian education can not be overestimated, nor can the work be too widely encouraged.
ON THE evening of the 9th inst., Brethren A. O. Tait and H. H. Hall, of this office, started for Kansas City, Mo., to attend a meeting of the Central Union Conference. After that meeting Brother Tait expects to attend the meeting of the Southwestern Union Conference at Keene, Texas. From thence he will return to this coast for the Pacific Union meeting at Portland, Oregon. From the Kansas City meeting, Brother Hall will itinerate to points north in the interest of the book work. The Iowa people have him booked for attendance at their canvassers' school, to be held at Stuart in February.
IN November last, Brother B. E. Connerly baptized eight candidates at Arecibo, Porto Rico. Reporting to the New York Indicator, he says: "I am now out with the paper almost all the time, and the Lord has given us a good interest. There has never been so good a spirit in favor of our paper as we find now, and we must work while it lasts as everything seems to be governed by impulses and emotions here. To-morrow, a different spirit may arise and we be unable to do anything. So we work, doing the best we can, feeling that our best is a very little toward spreading the great message that we have to give."
FROM Dr. H. W. Miller we have received a copy of the Fuh in Hsuen Pao (The Gospel Herald) a monthly publication issued by the Seventh-day Adventist China Mission at Shang Tsai Hsien, Honan, China. The price is 25 cents a year; ten copies, $1.50. With this sample copy there came also a Chinese Sabbath Calendar for 1906. Price, 30 cents per 100, postage added, amount not stated. However it would be merely nominal, as the calendar is on light paper, 12½ by 18 inches in size. In addition to these, there was enclosed a Chinese tract on the "Immortality of the Soul." Price, 50 cents per 100. For any of these publications, address Dr. Miller as above.
IN the New York Indicator, Brother J. S. Wightman, secretary of religious liberty work, reports that "the great hue and cry in Rochester over better Sunday observance has somewhat subsided. The department [of religious liberty] has been busy in this field in a quiet and private way, to the extent that certain justices have changed their minds as to the propriety of a stricter enforcement of laws essentially religious in character." It must not be understood, however, that the "hue and cry" is down permanently; our work is one of vigilance—not to save ourselves trouble, but to warn the world of what such agitations mean. Brother Wightman further notes that "in the neighboring State of Pennsylvania there are strong signs that the conflict may be in the immediate future. The enemy is alert and active. Federal comity, National Reform, stricter Sunday laws, and kindred ideas and demands are sweeping the state like a hurricane." We are glad to note, however, that our religious liberty department in that state is also active in the matter of circulating the warning message.