OUR WORK AND WORKERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 28.

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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

On the 19th of June six persons united with the church at Cleveland, Ohio.

At the recent camp-meeting at Madison, Wis., fifty-nine persons were baptized.

Elder H. W. Cottrell has been elected president of New England Conference.

The Texas general camp-meeting and conference will be held at Fort Worth July 30 to August 9.

At Battle Creek, Mich., June 12, twelve persons were baptized and fifteen were added to the church.

Elders Knox, McClure, Andross, and Courter are attending the local camp-meeting in Eureka, Cal.

Elder C. P. Frederickson reports that seven adults have taken their stand for the truth at Monte Vista, Colo.

Our missionaries in the Fiji Islands now have a small boat for their work amongst the eighty inhabited islands of that group.

Colorado Conference now has five tents in the field. At present they are located at Eaton, Durango, Cripple Creek, Idaho Springs, and Denver.

Elder J. B. Ashcraft reports that four families have embraced the Sabbath of the Lord at Elk, Ark. Twenty members were added to the Sabbath-school.

From May 14 to 18 Elders Wm. Covert and J. C. Mikkelsen organized a church of twelve members at Amery, Wis., and another of twenty-one members at Clear Lake.

On June 19 four persons who had attended the Scandinavian meetings in Brooklyn, N. Y., were baptized. A short time previously five had followed the Lord in this ordinance.

Schoolhouse work, conducted by Elder J. C. Harris, in the vicinity of Spring Arbor, Mich., has resulted in a Sabbath-school of over thirty members, and in the 12th ult. five persons were baptized in Grand River.

The Industrial School near Huntsville, Ala., has on its farm 75 acres of corn, 50 of cotton, 20 of millet, 23 of wheat, 15 of oats, 3 of sorghum, 3 of peanuts, 4 of potatoes, and a large garden. Besides this, 35 acres are rented out.

The following officers have been elected by the Pennsylvania Tract Society: President, I. N. Williams; vice-president, J. G. Excell; secretary and treasurer, W. M. Lee; corresponding secretary, Thomas D. Gibson; State agent, Morris Lukens.

One by one the old pioneers in the message are falling asleep. One of the latest to lie down is Brother Ransom Lockwood, of Valley Springs, Cal. He was in the ’44 movement; was brother-in-law to Elder G. I. Butler. His age was seventy-three.

A threshing-machine, manned by a Seventh-day Adventist crew, is at work in Solano County, Cal., and have organized a Sabbath-school of their own with a dozen members. So, wherever they may be at work during the season, they have their Sabbath-school with them.

At the recent local camp-meeting near Jamestown, N. Dakota, eleven candidates were baptized. There were forty family tents on the ground, most of the people having come with teams, many of them driving over 100 miles. Services were conducted in both German and English.

At the Pennsylvania camp-meeting held at Altoona in the forepart of June, twenty persons were baptized, and it was decided to continue tent-meetings in the place on account of the interest manifested by the people. Elders K. C. Russell and L. S. Wheeler were left in charge of the work.

At last reports from our school at Arondale, Cooranbong, New South Wales, there were thirty in attendance of the brightest youth in Australasia. The teachers are Prof. and Mrs. C. B. Hughes, Prof. and Mrs. H. C. Lacey, and Elder and Mrs. S. N. Haskell. The school was prospering and enjoying much of the blessing of the Lord.

Elder D. C. Babcock, president of Virginia Conference, reports the organization of a church of thirty members at Danville. This company has also purchased a house of worship, and through the missionary efforts of some of the members another company of Sabbath-keepers has been gathered at Halifax. The church at Hebron is also erecting a house of worship.

We have had our “self-denial week,” as we call it, and in this connection it is well to think of the self-denial that some of our laborers are willing to endure every week. We quote from a letter to the Review, by Brother S. M. Jacobs, of Huntsville, Ala.—

“I have just been down into the center of the State to visit one of our workers (a young lady from the north) who is laboring wholly for the colored people. I sat down at the table with her (by the way, she boards with a colored family); I did not ask her how much she had to pay for board, but I suppose not much, as everything we had to eat was one corn-meal pone each and a dish of blackberries. This pone was made of corn-meal and water, and was about two-thirds as large as my hand, and not as thick. Brethren, this was a blessing to me. I wish some of you could have the privilege of enjoying the same blessing. This sister is teaching school and doing Bible work. It means something to come down here and work for the colored people. Our courage is good, and we really enjoy the work.”