p. 20 | Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 24, 1904

Field Notes

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of thirty-two members has been organized at Bakersfield, Cal.

BROTHER J. W. TANNER writes that the work is moving steadily forward in Kingston, Jamaica.

AT McCracken, Kan., eleven persons have been led by a course of meetings to declare in favor of the Bible Sabbath.

SEVEN persons have lately taken a stand for the truth at Whatcom, western Oregon, among these being a Swedish Baptist minister and his wife.

A BROTHER and sister who went to Cuba from Minnesota report one family keeping the Sabbath. They will soon return to their native State, but rejoice to leave behind them one representative of the truth. They have the promise that other workers will soon go to that field.

BROTHER B. G. WILKINSON spent the week of prayer in visiting the companies in his field. On Christmas night, by the light of a lantern, he baptized three in a stream in eastern France. Three others in the little company will be ready for baptism soon, as a result of this week-of-prayer visit.

BROTHER H. C. GOODRICH writes that all Ruatan is open as never before for the message. He has been holding meetings with a local deacon in Belize, who has acknowledged the truth of the Sabbath, and seems to rejoice in it. Brother Goodrich is looking anxiously for additional workers for this field.

ELDER J. M. ELLIS, who has been laboring in Quebec for nearly two years, has recently returned to Indiana, his home State. It became necessary for his family to return in order to provide a home for his mother, and in view of this it is thought best for Elder Ellis to take up work in the Lake Union Conference again. W. H. T.

WRITING of the work in Chile, Brother Ketring says that during his absence from home, Mrs. Ketring and their little girl go on horseback to a Scotch colony about four or five miles from their home, to hold a Sabbath-school for the children, of whom there are many. After this, Mrs. Ketring holds a Bible study with the adults. Brother Ketring held meetings at this place last winter.

BROTHER WAKEHAM writes from Cairo, Egypt: “The work is progressing slowly. I administered my first baptism a few weeks ago. Two converts were immersed in the river Nile. Some others have asked for baptism, but we will go slowly, as many here look upon it merely as a form. A brother who for twenty-three years was an evangelist in the American Mission field, is now keeping the Sabbath, and he believes all our doctrines. He can not speak English, and can read but little, having studied it when a boy in the American Mission school. He is circulating our tracts in his neighborhood.”