Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 22, 1904

A new church building was dedicated recently at Eastport, Mich.

Brother J. W. Beams reports a good interest at Wood Lake, in Cherry Co., Neb., where several conversions have taken place.

An increase of twenty per cent in the membership of the New Jersey Conference is reported for the past ten months.

Meetings held with the Waukon (Iowa) church, November 16-20, resulted in the addition of eight to the church-membership, four of these being subject to baptism.

Brother T. G. Lewis reports an interest at Rose City, Mich., and vicinity, where there are a number of Sabbath-keepers who have not yet received baptism.

The annual graduating exercises of the Iowa Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training-school are to be held in the Des Moines Seventh-day Adventist church, Dec. 29, 1904. Elder A. G. Daniells will be present, and deliver the principal address.

In a report from West Virginia, Elder S. G. Huntington says: “A lady and her children were found recently in Fayette County, who are keeping the Sabbath. We have not yet learned how she found the truth, but she sends us words of good cheer, and asks for a minister to come and hold meetings in her neighborhood. This instance alone ought to stimulate every true Seventh-day Adventist in the State to a more zealous effort in spreading the truth by every possible means. . . . Our canvassers are doing excellent work. New workers are entering the field, and still others are preparing to do so.”

Elder C. B. Rule reports the recent baptism of four persons at Naruna, Va., and states that others will soon follow. The company at that place now numbers eighteen, and the Sabbath-school numbers twenty-three. They are planning to build a church soon.

Brother U. Bender says of the work in Little Rock, Ark.: “The church at this place is doing well. They have a good Sabbath-school with interesting after-meetings. The young people have organized themselves into a society for their advancement, that they might be able to help others see the truth.”

The president of the West Michigan conference, Elder A. G. Haughey, in a recent letter sends this word from that field: “You will no doubt be pleased to learn of the progress of the work in the West Michigan Conference. We have had four tents in the field during the past season. Three new churches have been organized, and three other companies have been formed which will be organized into churches later. Truly this field is ripe unto harvest.”

Brother C. B. Stephenson reports from Florida: “The interest at Plant City continues good. There are between fifteen and twenty Sabbath-keepers there as the result of the lectures and camp-meeting. I believe we shall have a church house here in due time.

“November 26, 27, I visited the Wauchula company. Elder L. H. Crisler has labored there several weeks, preparing them for organization. The company seemed very much helped by his ministry, making some marked reforms. It was clear to us that this company should be organized into a church, which was done. Eighteen were admitted into the organization. Brother Sanbourn was chosen elder.

“I came to Punta Gorda, November 29, and organized a church consisting of ten colored members. Some of this number had been members of other churches. Two new members were received, and will be baptized next Sabbath by Elder O. N. Whetsel, who was chosen elder of the church. They have erected a nice little church house, and are progressing well.”

A four-days’ general meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference was held recently in Philadelphia, at which Elders H. W. Cottrell and K. C. Russell and all the conference laborers were present. Three days were spent by the executive committee in laying plans for an aggressive campaign, a part of which will be to push the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” In a report of the conference, Elder Cottrell says: “There have been more than sixty persons converted to the truth in the last eight months, who have united with the churches, and are awake to the present situation, and ready to do their part in spreading the light of truth. I was much pleased to see the committee take hold of its work with so much energy and zeal. The work in Philadelphia is growing rapidly. The church on the west side has secured a few thousand dollars with which to assist in the erection of a new church building in the near future.”