Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 1, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 35.

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Elder M. N. Campbell, of Iowa, reports two baptisms at Cedar Rapids.

Elder J. W. Dorcas reports the baptism of two persons at Woodburn, Iowa.

Two persons were recently baptized by Elder J. B. Goodrich at Hartland, Maine.

At Garland, Wyo., a church of twenty-one members has recently been organized.

Following the holding of an institute in Eureka, Cal., Elder S. T. Hare baptized three persons.

Elder J. J. Irwin, of the North Michigan Conference, recently baptized six at Alpena and three at Omer.

Forty-nine believers were baptized at the Texas camp-meeting, a large number of whom were young people.

On July 15 two persons, a mother and her daughter, were baptized at St. Paul, Minn., by Elder H. Steen.

Mac J. Allen reports ten persons keeping the Sabbath at Sincoe, Ontario, as a result of meetings held there.

In the Colorado Conference Elder G. M. Alway reports the baptism of one person at Canon City, two at Cripple Creek, and five at Pueblo.

As a result of the labors of Brother Nyman, at Frankfort, in the North Michigan Conference, Elder M. C. Guild recently baptized nine persons.

In the West Michigan Conference, as the result of services held at Keeler by Brethren Garrett and Hoyt, four adults have taken a firm stand for the truth.

At Ocala, Fla., July 16, Elder John Manns organized a church of twelve members. On the same day a church was organized at the sanitarium in Orlando.

Laboring for the colored people in Austell, Ga., Brother C. G. Manns reports the addition of six believers at Austell, and fifteen new Sabbath-keepers at Macon.

Elder W. A. Hennig reports six baptisms,—three at Warrentown, Va., and three at the Memorial Church, in Washington, D. C. Six persons have recently joined this church.

At Chillicothe, in the West Texas Conference, Elder H. E. Giddings reports a deep interest. More than a dozen are deeply interested. He is confident some of these will obey the truth.

At Globe, Ariz., Elder J. E. Bond reports the baptism of nine believers. These, with others received by letter, were later organized into a church of fifteen members.

The president of the North Carolina Conference, Elder G. W. Wells, reports two churches organized in his conference during the last year, with the baptism of forty new converts.

In the Oklahoma Conference, Brother W. F. Talburt gives twelve new converts as the result of meetings held at Crowder, and Brother D. F. Sturgeon reports the organization of a church of sixteen members at Buffalo.

In reporting the results of his efforts at Taswell, Ind., Elder J. M. Ellis says that “more than twenty persons have expressed their intention of keeping the Sabbath.” He has met very strong opposition, but the truth is triumphing. Brother N. H. Pool, at La Fayette, in the same conference, reports the organization of a church of twenty-one members, six of them uniting on profession of faith at the State Soldiers’ Home, La Fayette, Ind.

Brother B. B. Noftsger, manager of the Canadian Publishing Association, reports a sale of 365 magazines by one of our busy Canadian housewives, since she began spending odd moments in this way. She says that during the past nine months she has spent a small portion of her time in the work, and that “it has not interfered with her housework in the least.” Life and Health sells well in the Canadian field. In the words of Brother Noftsger, “We do not even have a medical worker to talk it up—it sells itself. The Protestant Magazine also sells well here.”