p. 18 | Field Notes and Gleanings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1907

Field Notes and Gleanings

NINE persons were baptized September 21 in the waters of the Atlantic at Beachmont, just out of Boston, Mass., by Brother Lee S. Wheeler.

THE president of the New York Conference, Elder F. H. DeVinney, recently spent Sabbath and Sunday with the church at Watertown, baptizing fourteen willing candidates.

FROM the Northern Illinois Recorder we learn that five persons were baptized by Elder H. Hansen at the Humboldt Park church (Scandinavian), Chicago, Sabbath, September 21. Others are keeping the Sabbath as a result of labors bestowed by Elder Hansen and Brother Edwardson in the tent effort.

ALTHOUGH there has been some public opposition by a Lutheran minister and a Catholic priest to the truths that have been for several weeks presented by Brethren A. F. Ferguson and J. W. McComas at Graettinger, Iowa, the contrast between the Word of God and the “Catholic Fathers” is distinct, and ten persons have decided to obey God’s Word.

IN reporting the recent baptism of three persons at Denver, Colo., Brother G. W. Anglebarger says: “The Lord has been greatly blessing the work here since camp-meeting. We see quite a number of new faces in our services. We have more calls than we have been able to fill. A number of others will soon be baptized. It causes our hearts to rejoice to see the work going.”

BRETHREN M. G. HUFFMAN and Chancy Wood, who have been holding tent-meetings in Granite City, Ill., since August 20, report that there are eight who have signified their intention to keep the Sabbath, and these, with those who were keeping it when they went there, make twelve. There is still a fair interest in spite of the cold evenings. This interest will be followed up by house-to-house work.

THERE are now seventeen substantial Sabbath-keepers, including three children, at Milo, Maine, where a company of workers led by Brother H. C. Giles has been laboring for some weeks. “The interest is unabated, and the workers are planning, the Lord willing, to hold a series of schoolhouse meetings in the outlying districts two or three evenings in a week, and then to invite the same people to their Sabbath and Sunday services at the hall in the village. The Lord is blessing the work there, and to his name be the glory.”

THE presentation of the Sabbath message has caused considerable stir at Cando, N. D. Three or four of the ministers and the Catholic priest have publicly denounced the truth, and some are turning a deaf ear to the message. However, a Sabbath-school has been organized, and regular Sabbath services established with six adults and a number of children in the faith. Elder E. H. Huntley replied to the arguments presented by the opposition, and about seventy-five of the thinking people of the place listened with interest.

BROTHER H. M. J. RICHARDS, assisted by Brother E. E. Farnsworth, conducted a tent-meeting at Loveland, Colo., and a good interest was manifest when the meeting was closed that the workers might attend the camp-meeting. Because of changes of fields for the workers, the regular evening meetings have not been resumed, but Brother Richards writes: “It was my privilege to go up to Loveland for a few days after camp-meeting. On Sabbath, September 7, I baptized four. This makes nine I have baptized in Loveland since the tent-meeting began late in the summer. Others desire baptism later. I am pleased to be able to report that I found two more keeping the Sabbath this time.”