Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1905

FOUR persons were recently added to the membership of the church at Alexandria, Minn.

TWENTY-ONE church-school teachers are in attendance at the summer school at College View, Neb.

TENT-MEETINGS are in progress in Kansas, at New Albany, Mound Ridge, Lawrence, and Valley Falls.

ELDER G. W. REASER reports the baptism of four converts at Pomona, Cal., July 1, and the organization of a church of thirty-two members at Ontario, Cal., held the same day. Two thirds or more of this company are recent converts to the truth. They have a newly erected chapel for public worship.

FOUR persons were baptized by Elder J. F. Ballenger at Long Beach, Cal., at the time of the last church quarterly meeting.

SIX persons received baptism at East Liverpool, Ohio, June 24, and the same day seven were added to the membership of the East Liverpool church.

TWELVE persons were baptized at Trinway, Ohio, on the last Sabbath in June, and immediately afterward a church organization was effected, with a membership of fourteen.

THE Southern California Conference has purchased the Loma Linda Sanitarium, after due consideration of the matter at a council of ministers and representatives of the churches of the conference, at Los Angeles, at which Elder G. A. Irwin and Sister E. G. White were present, and strongly favored the purchase. It is stated that the institution will soon be opened for the reception of patients.

FROM the Nebraska Reporter we learn that Elder C. A. Beeson is conducting tent-meetings at McCook; that a growing interest is reported from the tent company at Falls City, where Brethren A. D. Gilbert and Merton Farnsworth are holding meetings; that Brethren O. E. Jones and G. Mathieson are conducting tent-meetings at Indianola; and that good results are attending the tent work for the Scandinavians in Omaha, five having been baptized there by Elder Lewis Johnson, July 1.

IN a report of recent work in southeastern Kansas, Elder D. H. Oberholtzer says: “At Humboldt the church was much revived, and several were added to their number, through the labors of Elder Lair. At Altoona five were added to the church, and the church was much encouraged. At Mineral a Sabbath-school of twenty-four has just been organized. This is a new field; all this has been done through the labors of Elder Lair. At Fort Scott Brother Surber reports that a few have taken hold of the Sabbath, and a number of others are interested through the labors of Brother and Sister Surber. At Galena Sister Mary Edwards reports several new ones keeping the Sabbath as the results of her labor there.”

THE following statement regarding the distribution of labor in the South Dakota Conference is made in the South Dakota Worker: “R. E. Harter and Olive La Fave will bind off the work in Woonsocket. F. L. Perry, C. M. Clark, and R. J. Warner will hold tent-meetings at Artesian. E. G. Hayes, N. M. Jorgensen, and Bertha Jorgensen will hold tent-meetings in Hudson. C. A. Burman, N. B. Baldwin, and W. A. Baker will hold tent-meetings at Bristol. J. W. Christian and P. E. Berthelsen will finish the work at Viborg. N. J. Ronlund will hold meetings near Salem. Milla Johnson will continue the house-to-house work begun by Elder Hayes in Sioux Falls. These workers will be assisted by church-school teachers and canvassers as circumstances may determine.”

A REPORT from the president of the Northern Illinois Conference, Elder Wm. Covert, says: “We have been planning to run six tents in the Northern Illinois Conference this summer. Some of these are already in operation. One tent-meeting is to be conducted at Kewanee, another at Aledo, and four tent-meetings are to be held in the city of Chicago. One of these will be in the English language; another in the Swedish, another in the Danish, and another in the German language. Almost all our available help will be connected with these meetings.”