Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 18, 1904

ELDER W. B. BROWN reports ten new Sabbath-keepers at Blue Rapids, Kan.

BROTHER W. H. BROWN reports the recent baptism of three persons at Jetmore, Kan.

FIVE persons were recently baptized at Onondaga Valley, N. Y., who will unite with the Syracuse church.

TEN persons have begun the observance of the Sabbath at Sidney, Ohio, where meetings are being conducted by Brethren A. C. Shannon and G. P. Gaede.

THE company at Punta Gorda, Fla., have a new church building in which they now meet for worship. Two persons have recently taken a stand for the truth there.

BROTHER F. MILLER, who has recently been in the employ of the Pacific Press at Oakland, Cal., sailed with his family for Australia, July 28. He will connect with the Echo Publishing Company.

THE Lancaster, Pa., tent company report: “Eleven souls have already accepted the truth, and the prospect is that this number will be more than doubled before the effort is over.”

A COURSE of tent-meetings at Clay Center, Kan., which was closed July 24, resulted in bringing ten persons to the observance of the Bible Sabbath. Four of these received the ordinance of baptism.

BROTHER T. H. DAVIS, of Esmerelda, Cal., who has spent several years in Chile as a missionary canvasser, but came home on account of failing health, has returned to South America, his health having improved. He will go to Quito, Ecuador.

IN a recent report in the Canadian Union Messenger, Elder Wm. Guthrie says: “At eleven o’clock on Sunday, July 17, Elder Andrews officiated at the first baptism ever administered by Seventh-day Adventists in Prince Edward Island. Only a small company witnessed the service, but we trust that it may be the opening of a new era in the history of the work here.”