Field Notes and Gleanings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 28, 1908

Field Notes and Gleanings

BROTHER W. A. THEO. MILLER reports that at the close of a three weeks' meeting at Riverside, N. M., two heads of the families had publicly taken their stand to keep all the commandments of God.

SISTER MARY A. MILLINGTON, engaged in Bible work at Albany, N. Y., writes that the work there is very encouraging. Four more have recently begun keeping the Sabbath, and are regular attendants at the meetings.

FIVE persons have recently been baptized, and three others who had previously been baptized, are keeping the truth at Bath, Maine, where Brother and Sister H. C. Giles are laboring. Nearly all these new converts have responded to the call for active missionary service.

AT the time of the canvassers' institute at Trenton, N. J., baptism was administered by Brother B. F. Kneeland to “nine willing souls, eight of whom united with the Trenton church. Six of the candidates were members of one family. Another had been a pronounced atheist. He borrowed ‘Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation’ for the purpose of combating its teaching. But the prophetic truths burned their way into his soul, and he is now engaged in pushing the sale of the book that brought him the truth.”

SINCE connecting with the work in Buffalo, N. Y., last November, Brother E. J. Dryer has held one series of meetings, and is now conducting another. He writes: “Since January we have had thirteen accessions to the church and four have been baptized. This month we expect to baptize several more. There are more openings than we can fill. We have been endeavoring to push the sale of our periodicals that the seeds of truth thus sown might make many openings for our Bible workers and the public work.”

BROTHER Charles Thompson reports the organization of a church at Essex, Kan., “where Elder N. T. Sutton and Brother H. R. Godfrey held a series of meetings during the winter. The Lord blessed the efforts put forth, and as a result several took their stand for the truth, and were added to the Sabbath-school held in that neighborhood by some isolated families.” April 25, 26, a meeting was held, and twenty-one persons were organized into a Seventh-day Adventist church, and officers were elected. “After the organization, the congregation repaired to the banks of the Pawnee River, where Elder Sutton baptized three persons. Others who were not prepared at this time will soon be baptized.”