Our Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 22.

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Our Work and Workers

By Editor

SEVEN were baptized and united with the church at Lents, Oregon.

OUR meeting-house in Portland, Maine, was dedicated on May 27, 28.

ON April 23 the brethren at Palmyra, Missouri, dedicated their new house of worship.

SEVEN have recently united with the believers at Holly, Michigan, two at Shelby, and ten at Sand Lake.

OUR new church for the colored brethren in Chicago was dedicated on May 7, at which time three persons were baptized and added to the church.

EIGHT have been recently added to the church at Danbury, Texas; a church was organized at Elgin, Texas; and three were baptized at Valley View, Texas.

THE corner-stone of the Cedar Lake Academy, in Northern Michigan, was laid on May 3. Pastors Irwin, Wight, and Siemann had charge of the ceremonies.

DENOMINATIONAL papers are desired by Pastor C. V. Achenbach, to be used in connection with the tent meeting he is conducting at Zephyrhills, Florida.

GROUND has been broken for our new church at Butte, Montana. We are glad to see the believers in that important place moving forward to erect for themselves a house of worship.

THE brethren at Albany, Oregon, recently dedicated their new church. Eight additions have been made to the church in Portland, and four have been added to the church at Colville, Washington.

AT Beaver City, Nebraska, four were baptized and added to the church and five more await baptism at an early date. And at Williams five have taken their stand and united with the church.

DURING the last days of April a church was organized at Mount Pleasant, Washington, at which time nine were baptized. Two have been added to the church at Ferndale, Washington, and two to the church at Aberdeen.

THE Royal Academy at Cottage Grove, Oregon, reports a very prosperous year just closed. Among other items of interest, mention is made of the fact that eleven of the students were baptized on the last Sabbath of the school.

AT Cle Elum, Washington, May 7, seven were added to the church by baptism. This makes fourteen additions to that church since the first of the year. Four were baptized and united with the church at Endicott, Washington, one of these being a lady seventy-six years of age.

WE are just passing the season of year when our mission schools in India are opening for the coming year's work. We have very interesting and encouraging reports in regard to the opening of our schools in Garhwal, Meiktila, Karmatar, Utraula, and Annfield. Baptisms are reported at Karmatar and Utraula.

PASTOR G. A. IRWIN, president of the Pacific Union Conference, and E. W. Farnsworth, president of the California Conference, spent Sabbath, May 13, with the church at Mountain View in the interest of our foreign mission work. The church here raised $1,250. The following Sabbath these brethren were with our church in Oakland, California, and over $1,300 was raised there. Let the good work keep right on.

PASTOR R. C. PORTER, in presenting his presidential address at the recent session of the South African Union Conference, reported that three new main mission stations have been opened since the last meeting, and more than a score of "out schools" in addition have been started. The funds raised by the believers in that field have increased during the same time $17,505, and a very interesting feature of his financial summary is the further fact that they have raised and sent to "foreign missions" $12,607.25 more during the last two years than they did the two years preceding. It has been only a few years since we were raising large sums of money to send for "mission work in South Africa;" and now to have a Union Conference of devoted believers there that are able to increase their own mission donations by such a large sum in two years is a very hopeful and encouraging omen.