Notes from the Field

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 21, 1916

Notes from the Field

Elder B. W. Brown recently spent several days with the church at Davisville, Ky., conducting the services by which their new church building was dedicated.

The new church school building at Sanitarium, Cal., was recently finished and dedicated. The building is fifty-five by sixty feet, providing four large rooms on the main floor, and a basement of two rooms.

Singapore reports the recent baptism of fourteen believers, making thirty-two during the year, most of whom, Elder Detamore adds, were students in the school, or those for whom the students and teachers had labored.

Elder W. H. Thurston writes from Greencreek, Idaho, in the Upper Columbia Conference, of the baptism of four new believers, and adds: “A number of others who were not ready at this time will receive baptism later.”

Of the fifth new Sabbath school organized in southern Idaho this quarter, the secretary writes: “We organized at Upper Roswell three weeks ago, with a membership of twenty. Last week we had thirty in attendance, and expect more at our next meeting. We hope soon to have a church.”

Elder and Mrs. C. H. Rittenhouse have labored for three months at Imbler, Ore., in the southern Idaho Conference, in the face of bitter opposition. God’s blessing has attended the preaching of the word, and a Sabbath school with a membership of eighteen new Sabbath keepers has been organized.

There is a deep interest in present truth among the German-speaking people in the vicinity of Dallas, in western Oregon. Elders J. Riffel and H. J. Dirksen have conducted a series of meetings in neighboring schoolhouses, which have been well attended. Nine persons have received baptism, while others are studying different doctrinal points.

A new monthly publication, the Collegian, is sent out by the students of Walla Walla College. This little magazine contains twenty-eight pages, and its general purpose is to promote the interests of the school through organized effort. The student editors plan to make it a live wire of connection between the school and the field,—a recruiting agent for their Alma Mater.

From Cuba comes the report of additions to the number of believers in various parts of the island. Elder F. G. Lane writes: “Cuba is beginning to realize some fruit from the much seed that has been sown in former years.”

An addition is being put up at the southwest corner of the girls’ dormitory at the Waldorf School, South Range, Wis. The students have an active Missionary Volunteer Society, which is doing good work in training the young people for active missionary service.

Elder B. W. Abney has been laboring in Kinston, N. C. Notwithstanding great opposition, he reports the baptism of ten new believers on a recent Sabbath, and says that others are studying preparatory to taking this step. A Sabbath school with a membership of seventeen was organized the first Sabbath in November.

The first number of the new Yiddish magazine, called the Messenger, has just been issued by the Brookfield Branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Association. It deals with the present European war, and we are sure will interest the Jews. Elder F. C. Gilbert, of South Lancaster, Mass., who is in charge of the work for the Hebrews, invites our brethren living in the cities and large towns where Jews reside, to do all they can to place this magazine in the hands of these people.

Elder W. A. Westworth, of Indiana, writes: “On a recent Sabbath I was pleased to meet with the church at Muncie, and was glad to note the zeal of our brethren and sisters in this place. Their church school has outgrown its quarters, and it seems necessary to provide larger accommodations. The following evening I spent with the Union Church, in Indianapolis. I spoke on ‘Preparation for the End.’ Earnest attention was given not only by our own brethren and sisters, but also by the visitors in attendance.”

Elder and Mrs. Roy Mershon of Borneo write that at last a suitable site has been purchased for the headquarters of our mission work in that field; and they add, “While we are glad for a new home, we were more than glad to have fifteen precious souls ready for baptism, four in Jesselton and eleven in Sandakan. Besides these we have about twenty more who will be ready to take this same step in a short time.” Let us remember our brethren and sisters in these far outlying mission fields, and pray that God will give them strength and wisdom for all their labors.

A young lady convert who refused an eighty-dollar position as stenographer in one of the leading wholesale houses of Duluth, Minn., applied for a position as maid in a wealthy family in answer to a “Want Ad.” As she desired the Sabbath off, she was not employed. When the head of the house returned to his palatial residence in the evening, his wife reported the fact that she had refused the young lady work because she was a Seventh-day Adventist. “Well, you made a great mistake to refuse her if she is a Seventh-day Adventist,” the husband replied, “for those Adventist girls are fine girls, and can be relied upon.” They inquired for the young lady, but in vain, for she had secured another position.