OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 19.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

MEETINGS held at Wolf Lake, Ind., have resulted in fifteen converts to the faith.

THE Lake Union Conference will be held at Berrien Springs, Mich., May 8-18.

ON the 14th ult., three candidates were baptized at Santa Cruz, Cal., by Brother W. T. Knox, president of California-Nevada Conference.

AS A result of a short series of meetings at St. Helena, Cal., by Brother J. H. Behrens, five persons have been added to the church by baptism.

The brethren at Logansport, Ind., now have a house of worship of their own. They purchased a lot, then purchased a building and moved it onto the lot.

THIS item is from the Indiana Reporter: "Our workers at Connersville are still meeting success in their work. Recently some of the nurses went out one evening and sold eighty copies of the Signs of the Times."

MANY of our readers will be glad to learn that Brother Allen Moon, president of Lake Union Conference, is much improved since having his foot amputated. He was able to attend the recent council of the General Conference Committee at Washington, D. C.

FROM the Workers Bulletin we take this item of news: We have learned that preparations are being made to open a bank at College View, Neb. Our institutions there have felt a hesitancy about entrusting their funds with worldly institutions, sound as they may seem to be, and so arrangements are under way to have one operated by our own people. A brother who is financially able will finance the institution, and has agreed to release all his property from exemption in case of failure, thus securing to depositors as nearly absolute safety as is possible.

WRITING from Rock Lake, N. D., to the Union Reaper, Brother E. H. Huntley says: "We have placed reading matter in every home in town and country for a scope of several miles, and scores, who have previously manifested little or no interest in the study of the Bible, are now making the 'good old Book' a confidential study. The Congregational minister, tho opposed to this truth, said to me: 'One thing is certain, these lectures have turned the heads of all the people in town to thinking in your line. When I preach, they go home and forget it all, but now every old Bible in the vicinity is brought out to prove that 'Saturday is Sunday,' and those who have no Bibles are buying.' This explains to some extent the real condition. He also said that "all of his opposition did not amount to anything." The vital question now is, Will they heed the instruction of the "good old Book" after they have read it? The reading of it, yea, the studying of it, will do them no good unless they obey it. "Blessed are they that do His commandments."

"It Is Always So." Writing to the South Dakota Worker, a colored sister says: "Of course we need a church, as we have only a room to meet in. But it is going to take money to get it, and we are all quite poor, but the prospects of a good work could not be better. Now the white people need a church even more than we. But I am sure they will get theirs, as they get more help than we will. It is always so. But we are like the Syrophoenician woman—we will be glad for the crumbs from your table."

There is considerable truth in that incidental expression, "It is always so." God is no respecter of persons, but by some means the white race have come to regard themselves as the "masters" in this world. Consequently, first consideration is for the white people. The white people hold the world's purse strings, altho it is largely through some sort of advantage taken of what are regarded as colored races—black, brown, red, or yellow. Therefore what we "white" people dole out—even in a "missionary" way—toward the "colored" majority is always in small proportion to what we do for our own kind. That is the human nature that still clings to us. But, as a matter of consolation to our sister above quoted, and the little company in which she belongs, we would remind them that the greatest local work ever done through any church is recorded of one that had "only a room to meet in."