OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS

IT is said that Union College, College View, Neb., has more demands for church-school teachers than the institution can supply.

A NEW church building is about completed by the brethren at Harrison, Wash., where Brother A. G. Christianson has been laboring.

EIGHTEEN persons have been baptized as a result of meetings held at Clearfield, Pa., by Brethren W. H. Smith and Charles Baierle.

BROTHER G. F. HAFFNER, of Upper Columbia Conference, has been called to Oklahoma, and the Reaper says he will probably accept.

A REPORT from Brother J. B. Wilson, in Echoes from the Field, notes the organization of a church of sixteen members at Manzanola, Colo.

MEETINGS held at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., by Brother J. N. Anderson, have resulted in eight deciding to "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."

THE officers elected at the recent session of Atlantic Conference are as follows: President, A. E. Place; secretary, C. H. Keslake; treasurer, L. T. Nicola. Seven candidates were baptized during the conference session. Brethren Jesse C. Stevens and R. G. Patterson were ordained to the Gospel ministry.

IT has been decided that the next General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Oakland, Cal., beginning February 10 and closing March 3, 1901. The General Conference has not been held on this coast since the autumn of 1887. Inasmuch as fares are much lower than at that time, a larger attendance may be expected from the other side of the continent.

REPORTING to the Reaper, Brother G. W. Reaser, president of Upper Columbia Conference, says: "We have recently secured a nice new building near the center of Spokane, which will be fitted up at once and used for physician's offices, treatment rooms, and health food store. The address of the new building is South 11th and Stevens Streets. We have also erected a new building on the present sanitarium grounds, for a nurses' dormitory."

THE Industrial Educator says: "The outlook for Keene (Texas) Academy was never so bright for a large attendance and a successful year as at present. Large crops of wheat, with fair prices; an immense yield of cotton at double the price of last year; success among the canvassers; and general prosperity throughout our territory,—all contribute to send us students. Such conditions always affect us favorably. Then, too, the growth of the school has been steady for the past four years." While there have been some changes in the faculty, the oldest three, Professors Lewis, Kunze, and Giddings, remain, the first mentioned as principal.

REPORTS from Missouri Conference are encouraging. The force of laborers has been materially increased. Meetings held in Kansas City by Brother R. C. Porter, of the Conference Committee, are still adding to the ranks. Brother J. M. Rees, the new conference president, has located in that city, his address being 14 West Fifth Street. Brother S. C. Osborne, district canvassing agent, reporting to the Workers' Record, says: "At one of the camp-meetings this year a call was made for all those that had received the truth during the year to stand up, and it would have done your soul good to have heard their cheering testimonials, and to have seen how they rejoiced in the light of the present truth."

A VERY important feature of our work is the Sabbath-school. It is the church, old and young, at study. Sister J. W. Rambo, an experienced worker in the Sabbath-school, says:—

"The teacher must know God, for how can she introduce the children to One whom she does not know? Even among earthly friends we introduce only those whom we know. When should this be done?—Right away, the same as among earthly friends, just as soon as the child is introduced to the teacher. If Christ is "in you the hope of glory," in your sweet smile, calm manner, and loving look, he may read the character of God. He may read your meekness and separation from the world in a plain, modest attire, free from nodding plumes, posies, and heathenish jewelry. Usually the primary children can read only the simplest of reading, and that with difficulty. But they can read the teacher with speed, accuracy, and expression. They might stumble over, or be unable to read, the first Epistle of John; but they can read it in you without the slightest difficulty. Teacher, first of all know God."