Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 16, 1904

FOUR persons were baptized at Kansas City, Kan., May 14.

A CHURCH of thirteen members was organized at Dunlap, Iowa, May 13.

BROTHER L. H. PROCTOR sends word that twenty-three persons were baptized in Brooklyn, N. Y., during the month of May.

BROTHER L. JOHNSON, who is working among the Scandinavians in Nebraska, reports that eight persons were baptized at Newman Grove, April 30.

A CHURCH of eighteen members was recently organized at Hampton, Iowa. This number will probably be increased by the addition of other Sabbath-keepers residing in the vicinity.

ELDERS A. J. BREED and J. M. Willoughby, of the Upper Columbia Conference, are visiting the churches at Colfax, Moscow, Lewiston, and other places as time will permit before the Colfax camp-meeting.

THE Pacific Union Recorder announces that treatment rooms are soon to be opened in North Yakima, Wash., under the management of Brother A. R. Starr. A young people's society was recently organized at this place.

AT Grand Island, Neb., May 22 (Sunday), says the Nebraska Reporter, two baptismal scenes in marked contrast with each other were enacted. In the Methodist church twenty-two persons, were sprinkled by the pastor with water brought from the Jordan River, while at the riverside seven persons who had decided to walk in the footsteps of their Master were immersed by Elder Graf.

A CHURCH of fourteen members was organized at Littleton, W. Va., May 28.

FOUR persons were baptized recently at South Woodstock, Maine, two of whom united with the church there.

AT Avon, N. Y., where Brother and Sister Wightman are laboring, nine persons have announced that they accept the truths presented, and are determined to obey them.

ELDER A. E. PLACE reports that the Swedish church in Worcester, Mass., is in a prosperous condition. He recently visited this company, and completed a church organization.

BROTHER C. SORENSON reports five conversions to the truth at Homesey, O. T., where he has been holding meetings. He is now engaged with Brother Hampton in meetings at McLoud.

BROTHER D. K. ROYER, secretary of the Hartford, Conn., church, reports a joyous occasion for that church on Sabbath, June 4, when “five of the young people took their stand for righteousness, determined by the grace of God to keep all his laws.”

A CHURCH of twelve new Sabbath-keepers, of whom all but one are adults, was recently organized at Brockman, O. T., also a Sabbath-school of thirty members; this being the result of tent-meetings conducted by Elder F. H. Conway.

BROTHER DANIEL ISAAC reports that two families at Hoseman, S. D., are rejoicing in the truth which has recently come to them; also that the church at Sutley, which five years ago was led away from the truth by falsehood, are seeing their error, and returning to the faith.

ELDER G. A. SNYDER and Prof. J. L. KAY, of Washington, attended the recent camp-meeting at Tacoma, in that State. Professor Kay will attend the camp-meeting at Corvallis, Ore., and will then return to the Colfax camp-meeting. Elder Snyder will have charge of the work for the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” in the Western Washington Conference.

A PRELIMINARY report from the Western Washington camp-meeting at South Tacoma states that eighty-one tents and two hundred and twenty people are on the ground. Among the laborers present from without are Elders W. B. White, J. N. Loughborough, W. A. Spicer, H. W. Decker, Geo. A. Snyder, and J. L. Wilson, Dr. W. B. Holden, and Prof. J. L. Kay. Elder E. L. Stewart has been re-elected president of the conference, the conference committee remaining nearly the same as last year. The Sabbath-school, church-school, and young people's work have been consolidated into an educational department, with field secretary and office secretary, the latter being also the conference secretary and treasurer. By vote of the conference Elder T. H. Watson will spend the coming year among the Indians in the Fort Simpson region in British Columbia.