Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 11, 1904

BROTHER C. C. WEBSTER reports three baptisms at Youngstown, Ohio, January 16.

ELDER J. M. REES reports eight recent additions to the church at Du Quoin, Ill. The church school at that place now has a membership of thirty.

A STEADY interest in the themes of present truth is reported at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. For some time an average of five services a week has been held there by Brother and Sister J. G. Hanna, and several persons have fully accepted the truths presented.

THE new church building at Halifax, Nova Scotia, was dedicated January 10.

THE church school at Boulder, Colo., now has an enrolment of about seventy pupils.

BROTHER J. A. MORROW writes of a good interest among the Boers in Hamilton, Bermuda. They attend the meetings, and are giving the truth a careful study.

IN a report of recent work among the Scandinavians in Chicago, Brother M. L. Anderson states that the churches on the West Side are growing in numbers and in spirituality. Three young persons were recently baptized, and others are ready to go forward in this ordinance. A school for missionary workers is conducted, which now has an attendance of twenty-four.

IN a late letter Brother J. B. Beckner reports the conference recently held in Jamaica as one of the best he ever attended. Notwithstanding the storm and the poverty which followed, there has been an increase in every department of their work. During the year, one hundred and seventy-four persons had been baptized, and there had been an increase of three hundred and ninety-seven dollars in tithes and offerings. The brethren and sisters are of good courage to push the work with all their strength during 1904.

BROTHER A. N. ALLEN has recently been called to leave his work in Spanish Honduras, to take up the school work in Utilla, Bay Islands. He left his field reluctantly, as the work was well started, and he was anxious to continue it. Writing of this, he says: “I believe God is answering our prayers in regard to Spanish Honduras. It is a large field, and a needy one, and indeed Spanish Honduras ‘is waiting.’ It is a hard field. Traveling is slow; the people are very timid in meeting strangers; and public services are impossible. When we return, I hope to let the people know that we have come to stay, so that there will be a place where they can always find us, or be brought in touch with us by correspondence.” Of the work in British Honduras, Brother Allen says: “The work in the English field is growing, and the calls are more than can be filled. But the English field is very small, compared with the Spanish field. Seed was sown in this field years ago, and fruit is still being reaped, and other seed is being sown. But very little has really been done for Central America. There are five republics. It will be some time before the field will be self-supporting. There is no better way to reach the homes of all classes than by our publications; and to enter in this way will not require a great outlay of means. We are in hopes of utilizing some native help here in the school at Utilla, so I shall be free to canvass. There is good territory on the coast. At one small town near by, one of our Belize brethren sold a number of Bibles a few weeks ago. He says there is an interest in the place to hear the truth. We have one brother there. We pray that the new year may be a banner year for missions.”