Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 1.

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NINE adults were baptized and added to the Italian church of Chicago, Ill., last month.

A NEW Sabbath school has been organized at Drain, in the Southern Oregon Conference.

A COLORED Sabbath school has been organized in Jefferson, in the North Texas Conference.

ELDER J. W. BOYNTON writes of the baptism of four persons in the Western Washington Conference.

FROM Soonan, Chosen, Dr. Riley Russell writes, “Recently I baptized seven in a little brook near the Yellow Sea.”

TEN adults, who have recently accepted present truth, have been baptized by Elder E. T. Wilson, at Wauneta, Kans.

ELDER F. D. STARR reports the baptism of five adults on a recent trip among the churches of the Upper Columbia Conference.

ON a recent Sabbath Elder N. S. Ashton baptized twenty-three persons at the academy in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Cincinnati church reports five new members.

SIX baptisms are reported from Newark, N. J.

TWELVE persons have been baptized in Lowell, Mass. Also twelve in Worcester, Mass.

IN Portland, Maine, seven have recently begun the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord.

ELDER A. C. ANDERSON reports the organization of a company of fourteen Sabbath keepers at Archie, Mo.

ELDERS O. A. Hall and H. J. Doolittle report the organization of a Seventh-day Adventist Church of thirteen charter members at Nanking, China.

GOOD news comes from Simla, India. Dr. H. C. Menkel writes that four were baptized on a recent Sabbath, and that another class for baptism has been formed.

ON a recent Sabbath twelve persons were baptized in Denver, Colo., and others will be ready to take this step soon. Five have united with the church at Colorado Springs by baptism during the last few weeks.

As a result of a series of meetings held in Keokuk, Iowa, fifty persons have begun to observe the Sabbath of the Lord. During the past summer and fall twenty persons have been baptized in Sioux City.

ELDER J. J. IRWIN reports twenty new Sabbath keepers at Frankfort, Mich., as the result of a series of meetings recently held. A new church has been organized at Cooks, with a membership of ten. Elder J. M. Hoyt baptized six persons at Greenville not long ago.

A COMPANY of seven Sabbath keepers in Halifax County, Virginia, is a result of a copy of “The Great Controversy” sold one of their number while he was living in North Carolina. Seven new believers have been baptized at Guinea Mills.

ELDER W. H. SHERRIG reports that within the last two months twenty-two new members have been baptized and added to the Omaha (Nebr.) English and Scandinavian churches. A Sabbath school of thirty-five members has been organized at Havana.

SEVEN new believers have joined the German church in Buffalo, in the Western New York Conference. Eight baptisms are reported from Corning. Twenty-two have been recently received into the church at Syracuse, in the eastern part of the State, nineteen of whom are new believers.

FIFTEEN persons were baptized, and a number are keeping the Sabbath and will take this step later, as a result of a series of meetings held by Elders A. S. Booth and J. A. Stevens in Reno, Nev. The newspapers were especially liberal, and printed eighty-five articles on the message during the time of the meetings.