Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 29, 1904

FOUR residents of Culleoka, Tex., have recently accepted the truth, and it is hoped a church may soon be organized there.

NINE persons have recently received baptism at Myrtle Point, western Oregon, where a local camp-meeting was held last fall.

AS a result of tent-meetings and other labor at Morrow, Ohio, and vicinity, eight persons are now keeping the Sabbath there.

BROTHER H. J. DIRKSEN, who has been laboring at Ashland, Ore., and vicinity, reports the baptism of eight persons, November 19.

A COURSE of meetings at Locust Point, Ohio, was closed December 3, three persons having accepted the truths presented, and others being reported as on the point of obeying.

The Southern Illinois Herald reports: “Elder Taggart is holding a series of meetings in the country near Marion. He reports a good interest. Four have already begun to observe the Sabbath.”

A MEETING of missionary secretaries and general agents in the Pacific Union Conference has been called to convene at Mountain View, Cal., about the middle of January, for the study of such methods of labor as will best advance the message.

AN important council to consider some questions concerning the educational work in California, was held in Oakland, December 20, 21.

AT Gilford, Mich., where there were four persons keeping the Sabbath, six others have lately taken a stand for the truth, making a company of ten. A Sabbath-school has been organized, and regular Sabbath services will be held.

THE East Michigan Banner reports: “Brother E. R. Lauda has organized a Sabbath-school where he has been holding meetings at Sanilac Center. The work continues to go forward there.”

AS a result of meetings which have been continued through the fall at Redding, Cal., eleven persons have been won to the truth there, though it is stated that “for years the churches and missions have not been able to accomplish anything in Redding.”

ELDER F. D. STARR says, in a recent report from Colville, Wash.: “A neat house of worship is being erected here, and will soon be ready for dedication. October 22 we organized a church of seventeen members. Brother L. R. Foos was chosen elder.”

REPORTING a recent visit to his home town, Escondido, Cal., Brother A. J. Howard says: “Thus far since my home stay, nine persons are rejoicing in newfound light and obeying God’s requirements as to the Sabbath. Fourteen have been added to our Sabbath-school.”

BROTHER C. E. KNIGHT says, in a report from Arizona: “The number of Sabbath-keepers in the companies at Prescott and Buckeye was rather a surprise to me, and I expect these will soon be strengthened in membership and confirmed in the faith, and organized into churches. I have just come to the last-named place with my family, to hold a series of meetings.”

EIGHT new converts to the cause of Sabbath reform were recently gained at Burt, Iowa, and a Sabbath-school of about twenty members was also organized. Brother Archer Cotton, who is working in that vicinity, reports that “men who have never been known to attend church are manifesting a deep interest, and the prospects for further additions are very favorable.”

A CANVASSERS’ institute is to be held in Nebraska City, Neb., January 6–29. It is the plan to make this an occasion of thoroughly working the city. The program is being so arranged that two hours each afternoon will be spent by all who attend the institute, in working among the people with our books and papers. A course of public lectures will be given evenings during the time.

IN a recent report of work at Dowling, Ohio, Brother J. O. Young says: “After continuing our efforts for seven weeks, twelve persons took their stand to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. On Sabbath, September 24, eight of the twelve went forward in a baptismal service, and eleven were united in the sacred bonds of church fellowship, one of the original number having moved away.”

A RECENT course of tent-meetings in Ukiah, Cal., resulted in the addition of five to the number of Sabbath-keepers there, and a movement to erect a house of worship, which is now nearly completed. Brother A. L. Lingle, reporting from Ukiah, says: “The building is now up and enclosed, and almost ready for use. A nice bell was donated by interested persons. The church is twenty-four feet wide, thirty-four feet long, sixteen feet to ceiling. A belfry six feet square finishes the building. The building is located right in the center of the resident portion of the city, which contains three thousand inhabitants. This is the first Seventh-day Adventist church building in Mendocino and Lake Counties, and will stand as a monument, and a center from which the truth will radiate. The company of Sabbath-keepers numbers about twenty-five.”