p. 13 | OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 39.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

CHURCH schools are soon to be established in Decatur and Peoria, Ill.

FIFTY candidates were baptized at the recent camp-meeting held at Hastings, Mich.

FROM Colombo, Ceylon, Brother G. K. Owen reports six converts as a result of recent labor.

FROM the Eastern Tidings we learn that three Bengali men were baptized August 1, in the church at Calcutta, by Brother A. G. Watson.

AT Winnipeg, Manitoba, Brother C. J. Kunkle reports the conversion of seven persons to the faith "once delivered to the saints." Also that a young lady recently from Russia is donating her work, and is exerting a good influence.

THE Southern California Conference office reports the receipt of $37 from Sister Rosa Leitzmann, of Anaheim, for the support of a native worker in Africa. This is the fourteenth contribution of this kind from individuals in that conference within a few months.

OUR press at Karmatar, India, has put out 10,000 copies each of three tracts on the message. The Tidings says: "We are planning to put out many vernacular tracts in the near future. A song book for the Santali work is being put through the press as rapidly as possible."

AT the North Michigan camp-meeting, which closed September 8, thirty-one candidates were baptized, and at the close of the meeting three more took their stand for "the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." At this meeting Brother O. Montgomery was ordained to the Gospel ministry.

WE have received the third annual calendar of the Meadowglade Intermediate School, situated near Battle Ground, Clarke County, Wash. The scope of the curriculum comprises studies in the seventh to the tenth grades, including also Bible, industrial work, music, and instruction pertaining to missionary work. A new building, 32x40 feet, was dedicated September 29 and 30. For catalog or other information, address Prof. G. E. Johnson, principal.

REPORTING to the Northern Union Reaper, Brother F. H. Conway notes the baptism of six candidates at Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; also the baptism of three at Arcola, in the same province. He also states that there are now nine new Sabbath-keepers at Regina, as a result of his tent labors, besides a good sale of literature.

A NEW church was organized at Los Gatos, Cal., September 15, by Brethren H. W. Cottrell and J. O. Corliss. There were twenty who united with the church, and we are since informed that four others are waiting baptism. The Sabbath-school has an enrolment of twenty-five. Brother Seth W. Walker, who has been laboring there some time, was elected elder, and Brother Henry Wallace, a former employee of this office, was chosen deacon.

THE publishers of Sion's Vaktare, our Swedish weekly, announce a special double number about the middle of this month. The principal tenor of this number will be religious liberty and the movements that have been developing in this country for the overthrow of liberty and for the union of church and state, making this question a burning one for this time. The paper is to contain thirty-two pages, well illustrated, and to be printed in two colors, with a special design for the first page. Address, International Publishing Association, College View, Neb., for prices, etc. Give it a good circulation among those who read Swedish.

AN interesting report of labor comes from Brother W. A. Sebastian, who is now in Natchez, Miss. On going to that city he found four Sabbath-keepers; began work in a tent August 1, and now reports twenty-one, four of whom are teachers, and another desires to attend one of our schools. Brother Sebastian thinks there is a prospect of a good church and church school, and in this connection mentions that there is for sale a church building of 200 seating capacity and a four-room parsonage. It is owned by the Episcopalians, and is for sale at a bargain ($1,200). If any of our brethren, or others, feel inclined to assist in this matter, contributions may be sent to L. V. Crawford, Box 29, Vicksburg, Miss.

BROTHER G. W. REASER, president of Southern California Conference, reports a sad case of persecution that occurred in connection with meetings held in Pasadena by Elder W. Simpson. A woman of unusually brilliant mind came to the meetings from night to night and finally decided to accept the truth. She expressed her convictions to her husband, who is a strong Roman Catholic. He told her that if she became a Seventh-day Adventist he would have her placed in an insane asylum. True to his threat, through the influence of a relative who is a strong Catholic attorney in the State of New York, he has had his wife placed in close confinement in an insane asylum. People in Pasadena, and others who are acquainted with the lady, are ready to give evidence that she was a woman of unusual talent, and perfectly sane in mind.