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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 7, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 19.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

Two THOUSAND quarts of fruit was found uninjured in the ruins of the Sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., recently destroyed by fire.
Brother B. L. House reports to the Welcome Visitor that five persons have accepted the faith at Coshocton, Ohio, through recent labors.
Of a special effort at Robbinsdale, Minn., Brother O. O. Bernstein reports twelve converts to the faith, and a Sabbath-school of twenty-one members.
Brother J. H. Camp, of South Australia, has been called, and is now on the way, to South Africa, to engage in the canvassing and publishing work.
At the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Highland Park, Tenn., four new members were added to the roll, besides two members received by letter.
At Bayside, Humboldt County, Cal., Brethren C. M. Gardner and A. S. Marchus report seven converts to the truth, and a Sabbath-school has been organized.
At Uniontown, Pa., five persons have accepted the faith under the labors of Brother W. F. Schwartz, and a good interest is reported. He has had the free use of the Dunkard church.
In a sermon before the late Union Conference at Topeka, Kansas, Brother W. A. Spicer said: “I know one Hindu—he is not a Hindu any longer—who was attending the University in Calcutta. He came in contact with our mission, and heard the truth of the Sabbath. And, Hindu as he was, he began, as far as he could, to keep it. He refused to attend lectures in the university on the Sabbath. And the Lord led him on step by step. His father disinherited him a little later. His father was a wealthy landowner. And that young Hindu came back and told me that he felt richer than ever before in his life. He had found the Lord Jesus.”
Brother O. Glass writes very encouragingly of the mission work in Fort Worth, Texas; that souls are receiving and accepting the truth who could hardly be reached in any other manner than through the mission.
One of our canvassers in India recently took seventy-seven orders in two weeks for “Ladies’ Guide” and “Man the Masterpiece.” Our health books are a ready means of introducing the Gospel to the people of the Orient.
The Record, published at Sydney, N. S. W., says that “Brother H. Harker is doing a good work with his Gospel wagon. At Trafalgar he found some people hunting for the truth, and was used by the Lord in helping them.”
Sister Estella Graham, Superintendent of Education for the Carolinas, reports schools in progress at Waynesville, Valle Cruces, Hickory, N. C., Oakwood, Blackville, Charleston, S. C., besides the school at Hildebran, N. C., which employs four teachers.
In the Keystone Gleaner we note this statement by Brother R. A. Underwood: “A sister in this conference, who has passed her threescore years and ten, said, ‘I will sell twenty-five “Object Lessons.”’ In a few days she had sold them, and then sent for thirty more.”
Field Echoes, published at Cedar Lake, Mich., says there are more calls for meetings in school-houses than the students of the Academy can supply. Of course the summer school is not so largely attended as the regular sessions. But these calls for meetings show that the Spirit of truth is at work among the people.
After laboring a year and a half in the Waldensian Valleys, Brother J. Cardy reports the baptism of eighteen candidates, and notes that several others are keeping the Sabbath. He says that in the winter the only comfortable place to be found is the stable, and there he visited and preached. Yet among these poor people there are souls that hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Brother F. R. Rogers, superintendent of education for Mississippi, writes to the Southern Watchman: “We have organized one mission-school and two Sabbath-schools that have reported this month [March]. I never knew of a deeper interest than is now manifested in Bible study and in seeking after God’s truth. Our schools are not overrun with numbers, not many increases, but much advancement in their work.”
Brother B. R. Nordyke, manager of the Pacific Press branch office at Kansas City, Mo., reports that the Central Union Conference, composed of the States of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, and the Territories of Wyoming and New Mexico, was organized at Topeka, Kansas, April 20. Officers were elected as follows: President, E. T. Russell; vice-president, L. F. Starr; secretary and auditor, C. T. Caviness; treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Co.; general field missionary, O. E. Cummings. The Southwestern Union Conference is to be formed of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma and Indian Territories.
From a recent Supplement to the Review and Herald, we take this pertinent item: “It is cheering indeed to notice from week to week how vigorously our brethren in England are pushing the sale of their periodicals, Present Truth and Good Health. Present Truth has now obtained a weekly circulation of twenty thousand copies. A great majority of these are sold from house to house by agents who make a business of that work. If less than one thousand Sabbath-keepers in England can give the Present Truth a circulation of twenty thousand copies per week, what ought the circulation to be here in America for such splendid periodicals as the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and Good Health?”
In the Workers’ Bulletin we find this item: “A ‘shipwrecked sailor on Pitcairn Island,’ in a recent issue of the Inter Ocean gives a brief history of the island, with a description of some of the manners and customs of its inhabitants. He does not overlook their religious belief, but states the following: ‘Some years ago a missionary brig came to the island, and the inhabitants were converted to the S. D. Adventist religion. On the Sabbath no work whatever is performed. Not even a banana is picked. All food is prepared the previous day. Not a fire is lighted. We attend church, and hold meetings during the week, and have little entertainments that we enjoy fully as much as other people do their grand operas.’ The entire narrative is very interesting as well as instructive.”