OUR WORK AND WORKERS

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FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 29.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

A NEW house of worship is being erected in St. Joseph, Mo.

FOUR members were added to the church in St. Louis, Mo., June 10.

BROTHER J. M. REES reports the baptism of three persons at Salida, Colo.

OUR Hamburg publishing house is printing the truth in fourteen languages.

AT a recent local camp-meeting at Ravenna, Neb., fourteen persons were baptized.

BROTHER L. F. STARK has commenced labor in Manitoba, Dominion of Canada.

WORK on the new church building at Boulder, Colo., is reported to be progressing encouragingly.

TWENTY years ago the Iowa Sabbath-school Association reported thirty-nine schools; now there are one hundred ninety-four.

The Spanish Fort at Malata, near Manila, after Bombardment by Dewey. View from the inside. The hole in the middle of the picture was made by a cannon hull. (Photo by Dr. Wood.)

JUNE 10 three members were added to the church at Kansas City, Mo., and three more the following Sabbath.

AT Holdrege, Neb., a church of fourteen members has been organized, and they have a new house of worship in which to hold their services.

SOUTHERN California is to have two camp-meetings this year, — one at Santa Ana, August 10-27, the other at Santa Barbara, beginning August 31.

IOWA Conference is building a sanitarium, to cost about $10,000, in Des Moines, two blocks from the State capitol. It is four stories and basement, and is almost completed.

AS THIS paper goes to press, camp-meetings are in progress at Anaconda, Cripple Creek District, Colo.; Hatly, Miss.; St. Paul, Ark.; Livingstone, Mont.; Arcata, Cal.; and Welsh, La.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty-four members has been organized at Sunshine, Colo., where Brother L. H. Proctor is laboring. A late report says that three persons had fully decided to obey the truth.

AT the close of the spring term of Union College, at College View, Neb., twenty-seven students graduated in the different courses. Most of these will enter some line of work in connection with the message.

THE mission boat California is now engaged in its allotted work along the coast of Finland, and on the adjacent island. The boat is named California because it was paid for by the brethren of California Conference.

PROF. G. W. RINE, for many years connected with the Healdsburg (Cal.) College, has been called to Battle Creek, Mich., to take charge of the preparatory school. This school has a yearly enrollment of about 250.

WE have received a copy of the Standard, published in Darjeeling, India, which contains a lengthy report of a discourse by Brother D. A. Robinson, in the town hall of that city, where he conducted a series of meetings.

THE Review notes the death of our well-known Michigan laborer, Brother J. Fargo, whose life came to a peaceful end on the 27th ult. He died in Battle Creek, where he was taking treatment for heart difficulty, but was removed to his home at Greenville for burial.

OUR work in Russia, so far, is mostly among the Germans. Under former Russian rulers, the Germans were invited to go over there and settle, as the Russians were so far behind in civilization. Thousands accepted the invitation, and colonists were scattered all along the Siberian border, even to the Caucasus and among the Asiatics and Mohammedans. These people understand both the German and Russian languages, and therefore form an excellent medium for disseminating the truth.

THIS item has been in several of our conference papers. It shows the importance of calling attention to our papers: 'One of our sisters read an article in the Review to one of her neighbors. He was so much interested in it that he asked her for the paper, as he wanted some one else to hear it. She let him have the paper, and he took it to the Baptist minister and asked him if he would not read it in the church the next Sunday evening instead of preaching. This was done, and the hearers all thought it was the best reading they had ever heard on that line.'

THE resources of the Almighty for spreading the Gospel of the kingdom are illimitable. He could make the stones cry out, if necessary. A Hungarian nobleman, a member of the House of Representatives, became interested, but would not attend any of our public meetings. While in Hamburg once, he attended a general meeting. This man wrote an article, which appeared in one of the papers of the capital, telling about a new sect of Seventh-day Adventists that had arisen. The article was copied by all the leading papers in Hungary, in both the German and Hungarian languages. Thus the world's own channels may be used in God's providence to circulate the truth.

A BROTHER recently went into a Colorado town to begin labor, where there seemed to be much prejudice. He was perplexed how best to inaugurate his work, under such apparent difficulties. So he took the matter to the Lord and asked that the way might be opened. The consequence was that the opportunity was presented to Sunday for him to lead the Bible class of the Methodist Church in the morning, to preach in the Christian Church at 11 o'clock, and teach a class in the Presbyterian Sunday-school in the afternoon. Then the homes of the people were nearly all open to him. Truly the Lord is pouring out His Spirit upon the people; let those who are proclaiming the last message walk in the light of it, and God will open the way.

The Old Church at Camp Dewey, near Manila, Where Aguinaldo Had His Handquarters. (Photo by Dr. Wood.)