p. 21 | Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1905

Field Notes

THE Central Valley, Va., church gained four new members, and that at Hebron, Va., five new members, on the occasion of their recent quarterly meetings.

A LOT for the erection of a church building has been procured by the second Seventh-day Adventist church (colored) of Springfield, Ill. The work of erecting the building will begin shortly.

FIVE persons were baptized at Kewanee, Ill., during a visit there by Brother L. H. Christian, April 15, 16. Four others desired baptism, but were prevented by circumstances from going forward in the ordinance at that time.

THE first church for the Seventh-day Adventist colored people of Texas was dedicated at Cleburne, Sabbath, April 29. Elders N. P. Nelson, W. W. Eastman, and H. B. French, and Sisters Nelson and French, with several of the Keene brethren, were present.

IN a report of a visit among the churches of central New England, Elder A. E. Place says: “It is encouraging to see the interest manifested by the brethren and sisters to consider the various phases of our work. We have found but very few notes of discouragement. Generally the testimony is one of courage, for which we thank God and rejoice.”

REPORTING from Karmatar, Miss Anna Knight writes: “Last night we had five Bengali ladies join us in our evening worship, and they were much pleased, and said they would come again. One of our girls read a chapter in Bengali from the Bible, and a number of prayers were offered in their native tongue, as well as in English. Others urge us to come to see them and sing hymns and tell them of Jesus. What more could we want?”

IN a report of the second annual session of the Western Pennsylvania Conference, at Wilkinsburg, near Pittsburg, April 19-23, Elder H. W. Cottrell says: “In my experience in the work of the Lord, I never witnessed a greater manifestation of his willingness and power to work for his children, to reclaim the discouraged, and to convert those who had never known him, than I saw at this meeting. There was not the least element of sensationalism, and yet the entire congregation was deeply moved to repentance before God. Several souls who had never professed conversion yielded their lives to him, and found favor in his sight.”

BROTHER L. H. CHRISTIAN says in a report of work among the Scandinavians in Chicago: “Two weeks ago we had

baptism in the Rockwell Street church. Eight souls were baptized, and nine joined the church, one of these having been baptized before. Two have recently begun to keep the Sabbath in the place where Brother Andreasen held meetings before he left; and in the other place where most of the work has been done since New-years, quite a large number have taken hold of the truth. The attendance and interest have been very encouraging, and are still good.”