Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 44.

Our Work and Workers

THE last of August, Brother J. A. and Mrs. Bodle left New Orleans for Guatemala, where they will connect with the school work in Guatemala City. On September 23, A. G. and Mrs. Nelson sailed from New York for England, en route to their new field of labor in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia. Elder and Mrs. E. L. Maxwell and their two boys also sailed in September for South America, where he will take the superintendence of the newly organized Northwest Union Mission of South America, which includes Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hutchinson and E. Henriques sailed in July for Trinidad, West Indies. Brother E. Rosenwold left New York in September for Europe, having been invited to make northern Sweden his field of labor.

THE believers in Manteiga, Brazil, have erected a neat chapel, which was dedicated on the 24th of May. Three more souls have gone forward in baptism in Rio de Janeiro, and six at Serro Pellado.

PASTOR G. W. CAVINESS reports the baptism of eight individuals at Mexico City, Mexico, since his return from the General Conference.

NEWS comes from Egypt of the baptism of twenty-four persons at Beni Addi, in the Nile Valley, and two others have begun to keep the commandments since the baptism.

A REPORT from Rangun, Burma, states that four candidates were recently baptized, and united with the Rangun church, and that it is expected that several more will soon be ready for baptism.

BROTHER GEORGE L. STERLING, who has been laboring for the past year on the island of Aitutaki, Cook Islands, tells of the conversion of fifteen persons.

AT the Fijian council, held in the village of Lewa, Nadarivatu, Colo, August 7-11, baptism was administered to five souls.

THE result of a special effort in Hobart, Tasmania, is the conversion of ten adults, and a number of others are deeply interested. Most of this has been accomplished through the distribution of tracts by members of the church in that place. Five at Ulverstone and four at Penguin have also identified themselves with the message.

FOUR persons at East London, South Africa, have made decisions to obey the truth. Brother I. B. Burton, writing of some experiences in Kafirland, on the Fish River, said, "I had the blessed joy of seeing six souls take their stand for the truth." There are about one hundred in the candidates' class for baptism at the Malamulo Mission. The total number of those enrolled in the Bible classes in the schools of that section is 434, an increase of 55 over the number last year. Baptism has been administered to six at Rokeby Park, to three at Grahamstown, and to eighteen at the Maranatha Mission. Some of these latter are the first-fruits of the Fish River school, which was started two years ago. Two out-schools also have been started on the Fish River, taught by two of the native teachers, one with thirty-eight students and the other with forty-two.

IN German East Africa, last year, four mission stations were started,—Kihuiro, Mauiba, Vunta, and Suihi,—and fourteen believers were baptized. During the first quarter of this year the reports show that eighty persons were baptized at these four stations.

At a meeting of four days' duration at Hui-An, Fukien, China, ten souls were buried in baptism, and it is expected that by the first of the year nearly as many more will be prepared for this ordinance. At a recent general meeting held in Honan, 130 believers were baptized. In speaking to the brethren assembled there, Elder Westrup told them that "in Germany, Russia, and England, every worker gained ten persons on an average for the Master last year; that in Siberia every worker had gained seventeen believers; and that if we also should really repent and consecrate ourselves to Him, we could win two or three hundred really converted persons this year." Brother W. F. Hills, in telling of the work in Swatow, China, says that seventeen were baptized at the time of their general meeting there, and a large number have united on their former baptism. He says the membership has multiplied itself by perhaps six during the past year, and many others are on the point of stepping out.

THE brother of Dr. A. C. Selmon, one of our missionaries in China, was baptized into the Coquilla (Oregon) church on Sabbath, September 27.

The Home Field

(Since last reported) Baptisms: Montana 5, Oregon 27, Washington 27, Idaho 73, Ontario 20, New Brunswick 29, Alberta 6, California 38, Missouri 11, Minnesota 73, North Dakota 9, South Dakota 3, Indiana 31, Wisconsin 13, New Jersey 14, Ohio 11, Virginia 11, Michigan 86, Kentucky 29, Illinois 80, Colorado 68, Maine 5, South Carolina 13, Iowa 83, Oklahoma

71, Pennsylvania 28, Kansas 66, New York 92, Vermont 4, Massachusetts 24, Texas 16, Alabama 3.

CONDUCTING A BIBLE STUDY IN OUR CHAPEL AT SHANGHAI

Conversions: Montana 28, Idaho 14, Oregon 13, Washington 15, Ontario 6, Manitoba 30, California 32, Illinois 26, Kansas 8, Missouri 8, Minnesota 13, South Dakota 9, North Dakota 4, Iowa 25, Indiana 5, Michigan 13, New Jersey 9, Virginia 13, Ohio 5, Mississippi 19, Florida 7, Pennsylvania 21, Maryland 10, New York 44, Kentucky 21, Maine 5, Vermont 5, Tennessee 15.

Churches and Companies Organized: Oregon 1, Illinois 1, Quebec 1, Saskatchewan 1, British Columbia 1, Texas 2.

Churches Dedicated: Ontario 1, Manitoba 1, California 1, Kentucky 1.

Sabbath-Schools Organized: Washington 2, Montana 1, Pennsylvania 3, Missouri 1, Michigan 2, Massachusetts 1, Kentucky 1.