OUR WORK AND WORKERS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 17, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 40.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

By Editor

FOUR converts are reported by Brethren A. J. Osborne and B. E. Beddoe, at Carson, Nev.

IN the Recorder, Brethren F. I. Richardson and J. E. Bond report six converts in connection with their tent-work at Flagstaff, A. T.

FIVE candidates were baptized in Mountain View on the evening of the 2d inst., by the editor of the Signs of the Times. The baptistry of the Baptist Church was used for the occasion.

WE have the annual announcement of the DuQuoin (Ill.) Intermediate School for 1906-07. The first term opened October 2, to continue twelve weeks. The courses include grades 7 to 12, together with business courses and other special studies, as may be desired. Address the principal, Prof. A. C. Haughey.

WRITING of a trip to the island of Lakemba, in the Fiji group, Brother C. H. Parker says: "There are nine towns on this island, and in all of them there is a great desire to hear the message. Pauliassi and I walked around the island in one day, and visited each of these towns. The distance is over thirty miles. The people were very open and anxious to talk. But, as it is in European countries, so it is here—the pork, tobacco, and liquor question is the stone over which they stumble and fall."

THE Union Conference Record, of Cooranbong, N. S. W., notes the death of Sister Sara M. Young, at Samoa, July 14, of pneumonia. Sister Young was a native of Pitcairn Island, and a graduate of the medical missionary class in the school at Cooranbong. After graduating she was sent to Samoa to connect with the sanitarium. The testimony of one who is not of our faith is: "She certainly lived the Christ-life, and literally gave up all her life for the good of others. She was greatly appreciated in her work."

AMONG those in attendance at the General Conference council and bookmen's convention at Washington, D. C., are Brethren H. W. Cottrell, president of Pacific Union Conference; C. H. Jones, manager of Pacific Press Publishing Company; and E. R. Palmer, secretary of the General Conference Publishing Committee. These brethren are all residents of our home town, Mountain View. Brother J. N. Loughborough, also of this place, was recently called to Battle Creek, Mich., to conduct some studies on the rise and progress of the Seventh-day Adventist work.

SINCE our two set-backs this year—by the earthquake and by the fire—our people have been thinking about what to do to assist in the emergency. We suggest that the best way to assist a publishing house, at all times, is to push the circulation of its publications. These are so varied that every one—old and young, rich and poor—can find something to handle. By the way, this is the people's part of the work anyhow. The publishing houses will have all they can do to prepare the ammunition when the rank and file of the people fully take up their legitimate place on the firing line. Christ has given "to every man his work," also to the women and children. Is it not time that all were finding their places? The little companies in the publishing houses can only do their own work. They should not be expected to do the manufacturing, and all the circulating besides.

SOON after Brother F. A. Allum and wife arrived at Shang Tsai Hsien, China, the book-keeping for the mission was assigned to Sister Allum. Writing of her experience to friends, she says: "There is considerable work connected with the accounts, and they were very perplexing to me at first. There are ten or twelve Chinese workers and they are paid so many cash a week. Then this is the center of the work in Honan, and all the workers are paid from here, and they are paid in dollars gold, so their accounts have to be kept in dollars gold. Several of the Hankow firms with whom we deal use only Mexican dollars (fifty-three cents gold equal one dollar Mexican), and as the price of silver is daily changing, we have to keep their accounts in Mexican money. Then at the bank they deal only in taels, and seventy-two and a half cents gold equal one tael, as a rule, but this constantly changes. Some days sixty-five cents equal one tael, and a few days after seventy-five equal one tael. So there are four different moneys in the one set of books." Concerning the language she says: "Three days after we arrived here, we started on the language, and we have a very good teacher. We had no idea that it was as hard as it is. There is no grammar, and just about nothing to help one. It is all memory work. We have several text-books, and a regular two-years course of lessons, and will be really glad when we can speak Chinese."