p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1906

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

THE enrolment of students at Walla Walla College, says the Educator, now stands at 195.

OUR latest missionary to Korea, Brother W. R. Smith, has located at Seoul, the capital, and commenced the study of the language.

WRITING to the Indiana Reporter, Brother F. M. Roberts tells of an unusual interest at Mount Zion. The people were stirred for miles around, many going from house to house studying their Bibles. Up to January 26, twenty-two had united with the church, after a few weeks of meetings. At that date the interest continued.

AT the last meeting of the Northern California-Nevada Conference the following officers were elected: President, W. T. Knox; secretary, T. A. Kilgore; treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Company; executive committee—W. T. Knox, J. O. Corliss, J. C. Wilcox, J. H. Behrens, A. J. Osborne, George E. Langdon, E. D. Sharpe.

A GENERAL report of the working of Southern California Conference, by Brother G. A. Reaser, president, shows a very good record for the past year, altho the conference had assumed very heavy responsibilities. There have been marked reductions in indebtedness of the various institutions, and a material increase in tithes and donations to local enterprises. All three of the sanitariums have made encouraging gains, and the college is now running on a self-supporting basis. We are glad to note these tokens of prosperity in Southern California.

WRITING from Long Eddy, N. Y., Brother Wm. Peake writes: "I want to contribute my mite to special Signs of the Times for Greater New York City, Feb. 7, 1906. Find coin enclosed. I want also to voice my commendation and praise of your careful and conservative reports and editorials on the movement of federation of the churches. The theme is not exhausted, we have had only the introductory chapters, for if this is the movement spoken of in Rev. 13:14, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast that had a wound by the sword and did live, then the war will keep steadily on till the prophecy be fulfilled."

THE affairs of the Southern Missionary Society, by action of the Southern Union Conference, are now under the management of the following board: C. P. Bollman, G. I. Butler, J. E. White, W. B. Spire, F. R. Rogers, P. T. Magan, and G. H. Baber. This board has chosen B. W. Spire as chairman, and C. P. Bollman as secretary and treasurer. From the organ of this society (the Gospel Herald) we learn that "it is the policy of this society not to abandon any field when once it is entered; for wherever our teachers have planted the standard of Christian education, there it still remains. The establishment of a school means the organization of a church in a short time. Already fully two-thirds of one conference is the result of the mission school work." Such a work is worthy of earnest and liberal support.

A LETTER from Brother J. L. McElhany, who has been laboring in Australia, says that he is holding himself in readiness to go to the Philippine Islands. The East India field, which extends from the Philippines to the Malay Peninsula, has a population of 50,000,000, and we have only five workers representing our message. This statement ought to be an effective appeal to our stronger conferences in America to divide up in the matter of laborers and means to support them. Brother R. W. Munson, who has spent several years in Sumatra, is now in New South Wales for a brief change for his family, but he spends all the time he can in translating matter into the Malay tongue. Brother E. S. Butz, who, with his wife, has been laboring in the Tonga Islands for a number of years, has been given a needed change. He is now acting as president of South Australia Conference. Brother McElhany reports eight converts at Lithgow, a coal mining town, where he and Brother Munson had been holding tent-meetings.