Field Notes and Gleanings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 1, 1908

Field Notes and Gleanings

Sabbath, August 8, three persons were baptized at Hazel, S. D.

At Langford, S. D., six persons have taken their stand for the truth.

At the close of the tent-meetings in Traverse City, Mich., several had given their hearts to God, and one person had received baptism.

Three tent companies in the Northern Illinois Conference have opened up new territory since camp-meeting. The meetings are at Holcomb, Creston, and Logan Square, Chicago.

Since the dedication of the church in Duluth, Minn., Sunday-evening services have been conducted with encouraging results. Some have decided to keep the Sabbath, and others are in the valley of decision.

Elder C. L. Stone recently baptized two young persons at Indianapolis, Ind., both having embraced the truth through the labors of two of our Bible workers there. Both have already begun selling our publications.

A good interest was awakened at the North Vernon, Ind., camp-meeting among those who attended from the outside, and four have already taken a stand for the truth, and there are good prospects for the establishment of a church there.

A report from Keene, N. H., states that eight persons were recently baptized there.

At Hazel, Minn., August 8, three persons were baptized, and united with the company there.

It is not generally known that the king of the Fiji Islands is a Seventh-day Adventist, but such is the case.

Elder G. W. Anglebarger recently baptized four persons—two husbands with their wives—at Denver, Colo.

After the camp-meeting at Waterbury, Vt., the interest was followed up with a tent effort. Nine have taken their stand for the truth so far, and others are almost persuaded.

A recent letter from Fort Jones, Cal., states that as a result of the series of meetings there, two have taken their stand to keep the Sabbath, and a number more are interested.

More than twenty names have been given in for baptism, and eight or ten others have promised to keep the Sabbath, at Turlock, Cal., as a result of meetings that have been conducted at that place.

Elder O. O. Bernstein, writing from Philadelphia, Pa., September 18, says: “Our tents have been taken down, and the meetings have been transferred to the church. Twenty-four adults have accepted the message up to the present date. Many others are in the valley of decision.”

Elder J. W. Christian says, in the Northern Union Reaper: “At Chamberlain, S. D., the work is moving forward, both in the church and sanitarium. The new church building is practically completed, and regular services are held there each Sabbath. In the afternoon a prayer and social meeting was held, in which all but one took part. At the going down of the sun a small company gathered at the river-bank to witness the baptism of three candidates.”

The Missouri and Colorado conferences have each been divided into two separate conferences,—Northern Missouri and Southern Missouri, and Eastern Colorado and Western Colorado. Elder A. R. Ogden has been elected president of the Northern Missouri Conference, and Elder D. U. Hale of the Southern; Elder John Lair, of Kansas, was elected president of the Eastern Colorado Conference, and Elder W. F. Kennedy of the Western.

Elder G. E. Nord, reporting the work among the Swedish people in New York City, says: “On Nov. 2, 1908, a Swedish church was organized with a membership of twenty-one. Since that time, two more short efforts have been made, and thirty-two have been baptized. During the twenty-two months of the church’s existence, its membership has increased to fifty-two. All except six of those who have joined have done so as the direct result of our efforts to preach the everlasting gospel to the Swedes.”