Our Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 45.

Our Work and Workers

By Editor

IN a report of the eighth annual session of the Roman-Swiss Conference, held at Cernier, Switzerland, it is stated that seventy-nine persons have received the truths of the last message in that field during the fiscal year. Ten were baptized during this session, and thirty young people announced their intention to take advantage of training-school privileges, that they might do greater work for the Master.

TWENTY persons have been baptized at Columbia, South Carolina, recently.

SEVEN persons at Oneida, Wisconsin, have taken their stand for the truth.

J. F. OLMSTEAD writes that six persons have been baptized in Columbus, Ohio.

THE laborers who have been holding meetings in the vicinity of Turon, Kansas, report nine baptized.

NINETY-TWO students have enrolled in our denominational medical college at Loma Linda, California.

A TENT meeting among the Germans in Johnson, Nebraska, and vicinity has resulted in six accepting the truth.

THE camp-meeting at Lucky, Arkansas, has resulted in ten converts, who have united with the local church.

ELDER W. D. Parkhurst, of Des Moines, Iowa, baptized three persons in that city and four others at Davis City.

AT Dillwyn, Virginia, nine souls were buried with their Lord in baptism and arose to newness of life in Christ Jesus.

THE church at Colo, Fiji, has received five new members. Three in another village went forward in the baptismal rite.

SIX persons, including one colored preacher, have accepted the truths of God's redeeming message at Rayville, Louisiana.

FIVE more in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have covenanted with their Lord, through baptism, to obey all His commandments.

AT the close of a series of meetings at Kalispell, Montana, at least eight and perhaps more have taken their stand for the truth.

THE interest awakened by a camp-meeting held at Princeton, Illinois, has resulted in seven persons' accepting the truths of the message.

AS the result of the summer's tent effort in Worcester, Massachusetts, twenty-five persons have begun to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

THREE have been baptized and united with the Williamsdale, Nova Scotia, church. Two have united with the church at Halifax, and two others are awaiting baptism.

SIX persons sailed October 8, from Hamburg, Germany, to take up missionary work in East Africa, and one worker from New York sailed recently for the Bermuda Islands.

BROTHER C. F. McVAUGH writes: "The work has been blessed in Mississippi during the last year. Forty-one persons have been baptized, and thirty more are keeping the Sabbath."

AT the Visalia, California, camp-meeting fifteen persons were baptized. Sales of Bibles and other religious literature from the book-stand on the camp ground amount to over $2,000.

The San Francisco Bay city churches are uniting in an effort to place in their cities from 1,500 to 2,500 copies of this journal each week during the next six months of the Present Truth Series.

A NOTE in the Australian Union Conference Record says that at a baptismal service held in the Stanmore church, five went forward in the ordinance. The day previous two were baptized at Drummoyne.

IN Oregon, five have accepted the message at Sitkum. At Cottage Grove, as a result of tent meetings, thirty-four have taken their stand for the Sabbath and other truths, twenty-one of these uniting with the church, and others awaiting baptism. These have united with the church at Albany.

EIGHT persons have received baptism in Honolulu recently. Of the number one is a Spaniard, two are Portuguese, two are Hawaiians, and three are Chinese. The great truths of the message must eventually pick out the earnest in heart of all tongues and peoples. God is no respecter of persons.