Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 26, 1904

ELDER M. G. HUFFMAN reports eight persons baptized at Farmington, Ill., May 1.

OUR Mexican workers are printing an edition of two thousand Spanish “New Testament Sabbath.”

SEVEN persons were baptized recently at Unionville, Ind., uniting with the church at that place.

ELDER J. H. KRAFT reports nine additions to the church at Hawkeye, Iowa, as the result of a five days’ meeting begun April 27.

A CHURCH of twenty-one members was organized recently near Little Sioux, Iowa, by Elder L. F. Starr. The church will be known as the Orson church.

IN a report from Hackberry, O. T., Brother William Braley says that ten persons have taken a stand for the truth, some of whom are awaiting baptism.

ELDER M. E. OLSEN reports that a few individuals have recently accepted the truth at Whittemore, Iowa, who are expected to unite with the church at Algona.

BROTHER E. B. HOPKINS reports from Kildare, Tex., where he has been holding meetings in a schoolhouse, that three families there have decided to keep the Sabbath.

A CHURCH of twelve members was organized at Richmond, Ind., May 8. There are several other Sabbath-keepers in the city who will no doubt soon be included in this company.

THERE is a favorable prospect for the erection of a church building for the company at Muncie, Ind., several hundred dollars having been pledged toward this enterprise.

THE Indiana Reporter states that from a careful estimate it appears that about one hundred persons have been added to the ranks of Sabbath-keepers in that State since last September.

PASTOR E. H. GATES, superintendent of the Polynesian Mission Field, sailed from Sydney, March 8, to visit Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Tahiti. He expects to be absent several months.

BROTHER W. H. ANDERSON reports that while in London he saw the administrator of Northwestern Rhodesia, and found that they had granted him the farm he had pegged north of the Zambesi last year. They seem well pleased with the work that has been done, and are anxious for him to open up a new station as soon as possible.

THE following officers were chosen at the recent session of the Upper Columbia Conference: President, A. J. Breed; vice-president, F. D. Starr; secretary, J. L. Kay; treasurer, T. L. Copeland; superintendent educational department, J. M. Willoughby; missionary secretary and treasurer, T. L. Copeland; State canvassing agent, T. G. Johnson; executive committee, A. J. Breed, F. D. Starr, W. W. Stewart, J. L. Kay, S. A. Anderson, H. J. Schnepper, C. M. Christiansen.