OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 6, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 22.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

APRIL 21, nine members were added to the church at Kansas City, Kansas, four by baptism.

THE South Dakota camp-meeting is appointed for June 7-17, at Woonsocket. The business men of the place are giving financial help.

A CIRCULAR from the General Conference office announces forty-five general camp-meetings for this season in the United States and Canada. Some of these are already in the past.

THE baptism of six candidates at Avinger, Texas, is reported by Brother E. B. Hopkins in the Union Record. He also notes some accessions to the church at Cusseta at a subsequent meeting.

OF the sanitarium at Wichita, Kansas, the Worker says that in order to accommodate the many arrivals, more furniture and furnishings are procured and more workers are arriving each week to help care for the patients.

IN the Welcome Visitor, Brother R. G. Patterson reports the baptism of four candidates at Toledo, Ohio, in the month of April. He also notes that of eleven funerals he has been called to attend, only one has been of our own people.

IN Eastern Tidings we note the baptism of seven natives at Moulmein, Burma. One woman, who had been a Buddhist and an inveterate user of tobacco, said, on coming out of the water, "No more cigars." And she is keeping her vow.

IN the Workers' Bulletin, Brother J. H. Kraft reports the organization of a church of thirteen members at Lucas, Iowa, April 22. The ordinance of baptism was administered just before the organization. After the close of the service another man made application for membership.

IT has been believed and stated that none of our people lost their lives by the California earthquake; but we have been informed of one fatality. A sister W. D. Brown, of Dana, Shasta County, Cal., had been visiting a daughter in Ventura County, and was returning home by way of Santa Rosa, where she was killed in a hotel.

OUR fellow editors—of the Review, Watchman, Youth's Instructor, and conference papers—have been lavish of space and sympathetic of expression in referring to our losses and our "Special" issues. We appreciate this kindly feeling and most valuable service. May their liberality redound to their greater prosperity in both temporal and spiritual blessing. We shall not soon forget it.

WE have received a very neat calendar of Keene (Texas) Academy, the thirteenth annual announcement. It contains thirty-two pages, with handsome illustrations of buildings and premises, together with such information as patrons or friends may desire. In forwarding the calendar, Principal C. B. Hughes says, "Our enrolment is larger than last year, and the outlook is very encouraging." May it continue to be so.

WRITING from Chester, Ark., of a tour in that state and Texas, Brother H. Clay Griffin notes the baptism of five pupils of the church school at Black Rock, Ark., which is taught by Sister Jessie McConnell. Later he went to Ava for a few days, where he baptized eight candidates. Besides these, two others were added to the church. In connection with Brother U. Bender, he is now conducting tent-meetings at Chester.

REPORTING the work about Karmatar, India, to Eastern Tidings, Sister Della Burroway says:

"We are thankful to have visiting us a sister (Mrs. De Rosario) who has just accepted the truth. She has formerly been in Zenana work under the C. M. S. As she reads and speaks both Bengali and Hindi her services are greatly appreciated where there is such a large field for work. She very often speaks to the people, thus assisting and encouraging our girls."

THE May number of Life and Health is fully up to the standard of excellence set by former numbers of this valuable magazine. Prominent in its contents are articles on "Divine Healing," "Experience Not Always Reliable," and "The Woes of the Sensitive." The usual departments are well sustained. If you are not a subscriber, now is a good time to commence. Price, 50 cents a year. Address, Review and Herald Publishing Co., Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

IN sending a five-dollar donation to the Pacific Press relief fund, Sister Margaret Barrett, of Stillwater, Okla., tells of a hailstorm in that vicinity, May 4, which knocked half of the fruit off the trees.

At Stillwater hail as large as a teacup fell, killing hogs and breaking through the roofs of houses. Sister Barrett is seventy-five years old, lives twelve miles from the church at Perry, to which she belongs, and is therefore the lone representative of the faith in her neighborhood. She says, "I take pleasure in sending what I can," and adds the further testimony:

"I take great pleasure in reading your good paper; it is a great help to me, and a great blessing to any one who reads and obeys. I rejoice in keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. I am so glad that I had my eyes opened to the truth. I hope the earthquake will be for good, and that the people will see how weak and helpless they are without a Saviour."