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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 10, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 28.

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Field Notes

From Lisbon, Portugal, comes the report of the conversion and baptism of nine persons.

On a recent Sabbath seven new members were added to the Claremont (N. H.) church.

During the eight months of the past year, twenty-one were added to the church in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Twenty persons have been baptized and received into the Nashville (Tenn.) church during the first six months of 1913.

Nine students from the Manson (British Columbia) Academy were baptized on the closing Sabbath of the school year.

We learn from a recent report that, in spite of great opposition, our first church has been organized in Ecuador, South America.

Nearly one hundred in Pakhoi, south China, have been won for present truth. Six have been baptized at Hongkong, twenty-four in Fatshan, and in Amoy ten persons are awaiting baptism.

Fifteen new Sabbath-keepers have united with the English church in New York City.

Six persons at Kingman, Ill., have recently decided to obey the commandments of God.

A church of twenty-three members has lately been organized at Ourimbah, New South Wales.

The news comes from Sumatra, East Indies, that four believers are awaiting baptism, one of whom is from the devil-worshipers.

During the past few months twenty-two new members have been added to the church in Ireland, and others are awaiting baptism.

The net gain in membership in the British Union for last year was three hundred ten. This is a larger increase than for any previous year.

H. A. Niergarth, who has been laboring near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, reports three new Sabbath-keepers, and the organization of a Sabbath-school.

The Latin Union Conference record shows that one hundred four persons were baptized during the last quarter in the Catholic field of southern Europe.

As the result of an evangelistic effort at Wells, Minn., conducted by Elder Stemple White, twelve were baptized, and fourteen persons have united with the church.

The baptism of two persons at Ashland, Oregon, and eight at Medford, is reported by Elder T. G. Bunch. Eight new believers were recently baptized at Salem by Elder C. F. Folkenberg.

Word comes from the British Union Conference that as the result of an effort continued for several months in Plymouth, England, thirty-two have signed the covenant to “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

“In a little over two years,” writes Elder Elbridge Adams, from Manila, Philippine Islands, “our work has grown from nothing to a church of nearly one hundred forty. The change in the government has given the people great opportunities for advancement.”

At the Mantandane Mission, British Central Africa, baptism has been administered to eighteen individuals, all gathered out from darkness by one boy, who has been laboring for two years at his own home, under persecution, teaching and leading his friends and relatives into the way of truth.

Brother Spies reports the baptism of five new believers in Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil. The first baptism in Sao Paulo was recently administered to four, and six others are soon to follow. A report from Espirito Santo states that eighteen persons have been baptized. At Mentaiga a church of thirty-two members has been organized, and a meeting-house is under construction. In the East Brazil Mission the first six months of last year forty-six persons were baptized.