Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 10, 1910

SABBATH, October 15, six persons were baptized at Columbus, Ohio.

As a result of house-to-house labor among the colored people at Greensboro, N. C., two are keeping the Sabbath.

SUCCESS has attended the tent effort at Greencastle, Mo. Six have begun to keep the Sabbath, and others are investigating.

ELDER W. D. PARKHURST of Des Moines, Iowa, baptized four candidates recently at Davis City, and three at Des Moines.

As the result of a tent effort at Hamilton, Ontario, seven have accepted the truth, and a number of others are much interested.

AT Little Birch, W. Va., four were baptized Sabbath, October 15, and two others are ready for baptism. Elder Robbins organized the believers there into a company.

SINCE the general meeting of the Maritime Conference, Canada, three have been baptized, uniting with the church at Williamsdale. Two others have joined the church at Halifax.

AT the close of the tent-meetings at Natick, Mass., Brother R. B. Clapp reports that seven persons have accepted present truth. Two have taken their stand for the truth as the result of tent-meetings at Westfield.

FROM October, 1909, to October, 1910, there were added to the church in Birmingham, Ala., as the result of house-to-house work and tent effort, twenty-five colored persons. At Montgomery eleven have taken their stand for the Sabbath.

SABBATH, September 10, a Swedish church of thirteen members was organized at Kansas City, Kan. Five or six more are ready to join. At Bird City, October 1, six were received into the church on profession of faith, and four were baptized.

ELDER P. E. BRODRISON, who has charge of the tent work for Scandinavians in the northwestern part of Chicago, reports several new Sabbath-keepers as a result of the services held there. October 5, eight adults were baptized at the Forty-sixth Street church.

As a result of the three camp-meetings held in California, sixty persons applied for baptism. Forty-six of these were baptized at the meetings, and fourteen requested baptism in their home churches. At the Visalia meeting, this month, sixteen were baptized.

ELDER C. H. BLISS reports that at Shelbyville, Ill., between twenty and thirty have begun the observance of the Sabbath since the beginning of the tent-meetings in that place. Miss Ruth Santee, a Bible worker at Rockford, reports three new Sabbath-keepers among her readers.

SIX young people were baptized at Bethel, Wis., October 8, Elder C. L. Stone officiating; some of these were students of the academy. The church at Clearwater Lake received fifteen additions on Sabbath, September 24,—six by vote and letter, nine by baptism. At Oneida seven persons have taken a stand for the truth, and have been baptized.

TWO new in the faith were added to the church at Lansing, Mich., and at the quarterly meeting three others were received,—two by vote of the church and one by letter. Eighteen have taken a firm stand for the truth at Oxford; and at Grand Rapids five precious souls were recently baptized. As the result of a tent effort at Keeler, four have been baptized.

FIVE are keeping the Sabbath, and a number of others are interested, as a result of tent-meetings at Roswell, N. M.

ELDER J. C. STEVENS reports a successful summer's work with the tent at New Haven, Conn. Twenty-one were baptized and united with the church.

AT least twenty-five persons have acknowledged the truth of the message at Nyssa, Ore., and quite a number are keeping the Sabbath. Brother E. E. Smith expects to organize a church before leaving that place.

FROM Arizona Elder H. G. Thurston reports two new additions to the church at Flagstaff, and recently three were baptized at Prescott. Quite a number are deeply interested in the truth at this last-named place. The governor of the Territory was an attentive listener during many of the services.

BROTHER G. W. WHITE reports that eleven have taken their stand for the truth at York, Neb., as a result of the work done there this summer, and that the interest now is better than it has been at any other time. The tent effort among the Germans in Johnson and vicinity has resulted in six accepting the truth. The Swedish tent effort at Omaha has also been successful in winning several to the truth.