Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1907

THE meetings at Dinuba, Cal., being conducted by Brethren H. C. Basney and B. L. Howe, have already borne fruit in the baptism of nine persons. They also hope for more.

ON Sabbath, August 17, Brother B. F. Sturman baptized four persons at Flint, Mich. This makes nine who have united with the church there since he began work with the “Family Bible Teacher.”

BROTHER H. LESLEY SHOUP reports that six have begun to walk in the light they have received at the tent which has been pitched in Bridgeport, Conn. Brother J. C. Stevens will continue the work in that city during the winter.

AT the Lafayette (Ind.) camp-meeting, five persons who had never before heard the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists took their stand with this people. The interest created by the camp-meeting is being developed by Bible workers.

THAT great good can be accomplished by the missionary efforts of our church-members, unaided by ministerial labor, is being demonstrated in Louisville, Ky., where thirteen persons have lately united with our church as the result of faithful work done by twenty-five lay members.—Indiana Reporter.

FOR nearly two months meetings have been held in Chamberlain, S. D., by Brethren C. M. Clark and R. E. Harter, and the interest has been well sustained. The Spirit of God has brought conviction to many hearts. Thirty-two persons have accepted the message, and are keeping the Sabbath, five of these being from the visitors at the new sanitarium recently opened there. A church will soon be organized.

IN a recent number of the Northern Union Reaper Brother John G. Walker writes of his visit to a new company of German Sabbath-keepers about eight miles from the Bowden church. They have a Sabbath-school of thirty, and will soon be ready for church organization. He says: “This company is the direct result of the labors of the elder and members of the Bowden church, and tells what may be done when efforts are put forth in the grace and power of Christ. This is the work that every church should be doing. I wish also to state that the church above-mentioned has never been, in my memory, in so good a spiritual condition as at the present time.”

A FEW months ago Brother J. W. Shields moved from North Dakota to Viola, Idaho, where he found one family of Sabbath-keepers in the village, and a sister far up the mountain. The president of the conference, on learning of the conditions, arranged for Elder L. H. Ells to hold some meetings, which he did in a schoolhouse near the isolated sister’s home. Her husband and daughter have been led to join in obedience to God’s commands, and have been baptized. Two others have also begun to keep the Sabbath, and Brother Ells is now, by invitation, continuing his meetings in the Christian church in the village of Viola, where he has a good interest.