p. 17 | Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 16.

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Field Notes

AT Bartlesville, Okla., three persons were baptized March 19.

NINE have been added to the church by baptism at Ava, Ark.

AT Kalispell, Mont., four adults have begun the observance of the Sabbath.

ELDER A. SCHWEDRAT reports two additions to the New York German church.

ELDER A. E. SANDERSON reports four more keeping God's commandments at Boston, Mass.

ON a recent Sabbath three persons were baptized at Danville, Va.; at Stanleyton four were baptized.

AT Penville, S. D., there are four families of new Sabbath-keepers; at Sutley and at Tolstoy there are two families.

SEVEN persons, mostly young people, were baptized at Portland, Ore. The meeting held at Cottage Grove resulted in the conversion of nine persons.

OVER in Africa, upon a recent Sabbath day, a very impressive service was conducted among the natives. During the morning service, six were baptized by the native pastor, and in the afternoon the ordinances were celebrated. Just before the elders were to receive into the church these new members, their own minister, who had baptized them in the morning, “passed among them with a knife, and cut off their copper wire bracelets, rings, and earrings, at the same time explaining to them, upon the authority of Isa. 3:16-26, that these adornments should not be found upon the daughters of Zion.” The service closed with a beautiful song of praise to God for the day filled with such manifest blessing, the people separating for their homes happy in the Lord.