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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 8, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 45.

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Field Notes

A CHURCH of nineteen members has just been organized at Shattuck, Okla.
ELDER CLARENCE SANTEE reports the baptism of six at Lone Star, Tex.
OCTOBER 14 eight persons were baptized at Pleasantville, N. J., and will join the Atlantic City church.
THERE is now a company of ten Sabbath-keepers at Willow Lake, S. D., who are rejoicing in the message.
THE East Michigan Conference is planning to hold general meetings in from six to ten different places during the winter.
SEVERAL have decided to join the commandment-keeping people at Rollins, Mont., after earnest efforts in tent and cottage meetings.
ELDER SEENEY, who is laboring for the colored people of Baltimore, reports the baptism of six persons, with others soon to be baptized.
SEVEN persons were baptized and united with the church at South Lancaster, Mass., on October 20, six of whom were academy students.
THE series of tent-meetings conducted by Brother Rees at Kokomo, Ind., led a number to take their stand for the truth and unite with the church there.
ON October 6 eight persons were baptized at Flagstaff, Ariz., and joined the church at that place. It is expected that about as many more will soon follow their Lord in this sacred rite.
THE church in Denver, Colo., is planning for systematic house-to-house work with tracts and invitations. They are putting a copy of the tract “How Esther Read Her Bible” in every house in Denver.
BROTHER J. G. HANHARDT, who had charge of the tent effort for the Germans at Jersey City, N. J., reports that four have taken their stand for the truth there, instead of two as reported in the REVIEW of October 25.
As a result of the tent-meetings at Webb City, Mo., nine persons have signed the covenant. Others are keeping the Sabbath. Brother Scoles states that among these who have accepted the truth are a Holiness preacher and his wife. Ten persons were baptized at the close of the camp-meeting at this place.
A LETTER from Brother Anderson, of Amoy, China, states that September 22 had been set as the date upon which they were to organize the first church in Fu-kien Province. Five were recently baptized, and ten others are now keeping the Sabbath as the result of reading one tract upon the Sabbath question. He states that the Spirit of the Lord is working upon the hearts of the people, and men are throwing away their tobacco and pipes rather than lose the blessing of heaven that comes by obedience.