Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1907

Fifteen new members have been baptized at St. Paul, Minn., during the past year.

The result of a six weeks' tent-meeting recently held at Grand Junction, Colo., by Brethren W. F. Kennedy and E. H. Curtis was the addition of eight members to the church.

The interest in the tent-meetings at Longdale, Okla., is still very good. Although there is some opposition, six persons have accepted the truth presented, and seven have been baptized.

Brethren W. M. Cubley and W. L. Brandon have been holding meetings at Rockport, Tex. The attendance and interest have been excellent. Ten have already begun to keep the Sabbath, and quite a number of others give promise of so doing.

From Ohio comes the word that six persons were recently baptized at Columbus, by Brother H. H. Burkholder, and a like number by Brother C. T. Redfield at Mansfield. The German church at Cleveland also received four new members, and Brother G. P. Gaede reports several other very interesting cases among his Bible readers.

After exhausting all the usual means of getting an audience, at Wapello, Iowa, and meeting with practical failure, Brother G. R. Hawkins, assisted by Brother and Sister Wolfe, advertised to tell why they were Seventh-day Adventists, and presented Daniel 7. The people came, and have continued to come with increasing interest during the presentation of the testing truths of the message. Four persons have already taken their stand to obey God.

At the time of the quarterly meeting three more Spaniards and an American decided for the truth at Alamogordo, N. M.

The church at Muskegon, Mich., is at work, Brother C. M. Whitmarsh setting the example. Ten have recently been baptized, and four others have since requested the rite.

Eight persons were baptized at Fiskdale, Mass., July 6, and the next day they, with four others, were organized into a church by Brethren H. F. Ketring and H. C. Hartwell.

A church of eleven members was organized at Ruby, I. T., July 11, by Brethren Andrew Nelson and V. O. Cole. The most of these new converts were the fruit of Brother Claude McDonald's recent labors among them.

The addition of six members to the church at Altoona, Pa., at the time of the quarterly meeting, is reported by Brother W. F. Schwartz. He is now engaged in a tent effort at Lock Haven, Pa., with a good interest.

Brother E. A. Merrell recently held a four weeks' tent-meeting at St. Joseph, Mo. Ten persons were baptized during the time, and still others are keeping the Sabbath. Some of these are persons with whom Brother Shraeder labored.

Brother J. W. Watt reports the baptism of two more of the students at the school located at Indiana, Pa. He is conducting a tent-meeting at Homer City, with a fair interest, among people who have never before heard present truth.

There is increasing interest in the meetings being held at Milo, Maine, by Brother H. C. Giles. Just as he was beginning to present the Sabbath question, one sister began to obey, and several others said they would keep the next Sabbath.

Despite three interruptions of one week each, due to storm and floods, the tent company at Jersey Shore, Pa., are of good courage. They have begun to see fruit of their labor, as eight have decided to obey the truth. Brethren I. M. Martin and Robert Beckner are conducting the meetings.

The whole town of Tripp, S. D., is stirred over the things presented at the tent by Brethren Daniel Wall, C. K. Reiswig, and A. F. Schmidt. One of the pastors of the town, who has been attending the meeting, refused the request of his people to debate with the brethren, saying that he had heard nothing but the truth, and could say nothing against it.

Brother Morris Lukens, assisted by two young men from the Washington Training College, H. S. Prener and E. C. Townsend, has been holding meetings in a suburb of Baltimore, Md., since the camp-meeting. He says, “It has been a long time, if ever, since I have been connected with a tent effort so encouraging: the attendance, the deep interest, the literature sold so readily, and best of all, the number already beginning to live out the truth,—all this has been more than we hoped for.”