p. 15 | Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1914

Field Notes

The baptism of five persons is reported by Elder W. H. Saxby, of National City, Cal.

Elder R. E. Bliss writes of the baptism of six new believers at Willet, in eastern New York.

The baptism of four persons at Harland, N. H., and six at West Burke, Vt., is reported by Elder F. W. Stray.

The tent meeting recently conducted at West Union, Iowa, resulted in twenty-eight taking their stand for the truth.

At the close of the recent Queensland camp meeting in Australia, thirty persons were baptized, most of whom were young men.

On a recent Sabbath twenty-five persons were buried with their Lord in baptism at New Haven, Conn., where tent meetings have been in progress.

From the Philippine Islands, L. V. Finster writes: “The past quarter has been most fruitful so far as numbers are concerned. The last six weeks I have baptized sixty-six persons. Baptism has been held in five different places. In nearly every place we found some who wished to join the people of God. Our native evangelists have been greatly blessed of God in their work.”

Elder E. K. Slade reports that tent meetings conducted in Mount Vernon, Ohio, following the recent camp meeting, have resulted in between twenty-five and thirty converts.

Elder C. B. Haynes has conducted a very profitable series of meetings in Wilmington, N. C. Among those who have accepted present truth as the result of his labors are three ordained ministers from the First-day Adventist Church.

From Greater New York, Elder J. K. Humphrey reports the baptism of twenty-five converts as the result of a tent effort conducted at Washington Heights, New York City. During the German tent effort in Brooklyn, twenty-two were baptized.

Elder Gustavus Rodgers reports that fifty-five adults have already united with the church of colored believers in Baltimore, Md., as a direct result of the tent effort just closed, and a number are now awaiting baptism. The colored believers in Baltimore have recently erected a new church building.