Field Notes and Gleanings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 24, 1907

Field Notes and Gleanings

FIVE persons were baptized at Des Moines, Iowa, Sabbath afternoon, October 5.

IN following up the interest resulting from the camp-meeting at El Reno, Okla., Brother D. F. Sturgeon was privileged to see five colored adults take a stand for the truth.

ELDER G. G. Rupert is holding meetings in a schoolhouse near Tecumseh, Okla., and is having a good interest. Some of those who attended his meetings last summer in Tecumseh are attending the meetings in the schoolhouse, and some have taken their stand to keep the commandments of God.

LAST winter while canvassing in Lincoln, Neb., Sister Minnie M. Hahn held some Bible readings, and as a result one sister has been baptized and united with the church. This sister is now, in turn, scattering papers and tracts, and has a good interest among her neighbors. Sister Hahn was compelled to stop canvassing in December on account of her health. Of her later experiences she writes: “This summer my mother, brother, and I have been spending what time we could distributing papers and tracts and giving Bible readings in the suburbs of East Lincoln. Through the Lord’s blessing, the result is wonderful. Yesterday three families kept their first Sabbath (this includes five adults and three children), and another woman is about to decide. With the Lord’s help, we will continue the work until they are established on all points of the truth.”

FROM Brother W. R. Uchtmann, who is assisting Brother F. C. Gilbert in his work among the Jews, comes this word: “The work here among the Jews of Boston is not an easy task, but God is abundantly able to overcome all obstacles and give us the success we are surely expecting. Several have now taken a decided stand for the Messiah, which we trust is but the first-fruit of an abundant harvest.”

SABBATH, October 5, Elder A. G. Haughey organized a church of twenty-one members at Buchanan, Mich. Brother W. E. Videto was present and baptized four. Several younger workers have labored at this place, and this is some of the fruits of their labors. At present H. C. Platon and Myron B. Butterfield are conducting a tent-meeting there, and it is hoped that others will be added to this church.

DURING the past two years considerable canvassing and house-to-house work has been done in Pontiac, Ill., and as a result a church of more than fifteen members has been raised up. During the tent-meeting conducted there the past summer by Brethren J. C. and F. J. Harris and C. A. Hansen, five were baptized, and there are four other new Sabbath-keepers who will join later.

FOR five weeks a meeting was held every night in a tent at Sterling, Ill., by Brethren J. M. Burdick and C. R. Magoon, of which they write: “We have been greatly encouraged by the earnest help given on the part of our dear people here. As the result of united effort three have been added to the church, and three are keeping the Sabbath who have not yet joined us. Others are interested, and we will for some time devote our time to house-to-house work with these and others.”

THE tent-meeting in Baltimore, Md., closed Sunday night, September 15. Brother Morris Lukens writes that “at this, the closing service, the tent was well filled, as usual. We have rented a very pleasant hall, on one of the city’s prominent streets, where services will be held on Sunday evening for some time to come. The interest is being followed with Bible readings in the homes of the people. There are twelve who are keeping the Sabbath, in addition to the twelve who united with the Baltimore churches after camp-meeting.”

THE meetings at Comanche, Tex., conducted by Brethren B. E. Miller and G. A. Lagrone, have just closed, with the attendance remaining good till the last. A recent report says: “Last week the ministers, lawyers, and an ex-judge decided to break up our meeting and get us confused by handing in a number of questions for us to answer; but instead of the enemy’s winning the victory and hindering the cause, the truth prevailed, and the interest of our meetings was increased more than double. The whole town is stirred up over the Sabbath question. The people on the streets are discussing it. Last Sunday we were also attacked by the ministers in the pulpits. To our surprise Monday night the people flocked to the tent more than ever before, anxious to hear more of the truth.” Twenty-one have taken their stand for the commandments of God.

BROTHER B. F. Purdham has closed the tent-meetings at Uniontown, Pa. He writes: “We have secured a good hall for our meetings here, and will do all we can to follow up the work at this place. I think much good can be done by house-to-house work, and by using the excellent literature the Lord has given us in these last days. We have organized a Sabbath-school of twelve members, and hope soon to organize a church, as we have Sabbath-keepers scattered around in this part of the field, and we hope also to see others take hold of the truth.”

AT the suggestion of a brother living in Bloomfield, Conn., Brother W. R. Andrews was invited to fill the pulpit of the Methodist church last winter during the illness of the pastor, and later he had a similar opportunity in the Baptist church at the time of the pastor’s death. The interest aroused was sufficient to call for a tent-meeting. As a result of this tent effort, one of the deacons of the Baptist church, with his wife and five children, accepted the truth. Besides this family, two others took their stand.