Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 26, 1905

A church of seventeen members was organized at Hamilton, Ohio, January 7.

Brother B. L. Howe reports an enrolment of sixty-four in the church-school at San Francisco, Cal.

A new church-school building at Ridgefield, western Washington, was dedicated January 1.

Six new members were added to the church at Cotton, Mo., the last Sabbath of the week of prayer.

Brother D. F. Sturgeon reports six new converts to present truth at Como, O. T., five of whom will unite with the Clearlake church.

The Atlantic Union Gleaner speaks encouragingly of the progress of the cause in Vermont, where quite a number in different places have of late accepted the truth.

Brother H. J. Schnepper reports six additions to the German church at Wilcox, western Washington, which now has a membership of about ninety.

The company at Goodwell, Mich., have been strengthened by the recent addition of seven new converts to the truth, two of whom had formerly been opposers.

The Indiana Reporter says: “Sister Niehaus reports that three of her Bible readers at Martinsville have begun the observance of the Sabbath, and our other workers there are reporting some converts.”

The elder of the Lovell, Idaho, church writes that the week of prayer was a “feast of good things” to that company, which now numbers eighteen members. A church-school building is to be erected there soon.

A report from Wood Lake, Neb., states that thirteen conversions to the truth have resulted from a course of meetings there which were concluded December 7. A Sabbath-school has been organized.

Brother C. M. Babcock states in a report from Amboy, Minn., that after a two-weeks’ course of meetings there, four persons accepted the truth “as a result of the faithful efforts of a sister, together with the influence of the meetings.”

Very encouraging reports are received of the work in Omaha, Neb. At a recent Sabbath service seven new candidates for baptism and admission into the church presented their names, and there have been twenty-five additions to the church within the last three months.

Elder A. E. Field reports the recent reorganization of the church at Norman, O. T., also the organization of a church of eight members at Merritt, O. T., and the baptism of eight persons at Wagner, I. T., following which a church of eleven members was organized at the latter place.

Brother H. S. Weaver, elder of the Second Baltimore church, Md., writes: “At Number 2 church of Baltimore on the Sabbath following the week of prayer there were taken into membership six precious souls; and one Sabbath later two more were added, making eight, four of whom are ready for baptism. Praise the Lord for converting power.”

Elder M. G. Huffman says, in a report of meetings held in Decatur, Illinois, since the camp-meeting there: “I held a five weeks’ meeting in the tent on the grounds where the camp-meeting was held; during the entire time both the attendance and the interest were excellent, and the results were very encouraging. Between fifteen and twenty took their stand for the truth. The interest has continued good ever since the tent-meetings closed, and we have followed up the interest by house-to-house work, holding cottage meetings and giving Bible readings. Between fifteen and twenty have united with the church, and others will probably do so soon. Nine have been baptized.”