Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 6, 1906

Brother A. W. Kuehl reports the baptism of five persons at Minneapolis, Minn.

Brother H. Steen reports the baptism of four at Rushford, Minn.

Southern Illinois is planning for three strong tent companies for the fall season. These will be located at Pana, Cairo, and Champaign.

Elder H. H. Dexter is now preaching to a crowded tent at Nîmes, France, where Elder D. T. Bourdeau held meetings twenty years ago.

Plans are being laid by the North Pacific Union Conference to hold a medical convention in connection with their teachers’ institute at South Tacoma.

Elder A. M. Dart has returned to Alaska to take up work at Ketchikan during the coming winter. He expects to find the winter a better time to work in Alaska than the summer.

Following the two-days’ general meeting held at Manti, Utah, eleven persons were baptized. Seven more are keeping the Sabbath at that place, and will soon be ready for baptism.

The series of tent-meetings at Charleston, Ill., has resulted in eight adults taking their stand for the truth. A church is now being organized at that place with a membership of twenty-two.

At Regina, Manitoba, seven young men have recently come into the truth through meetings held there. Two of these have gone to work selling our literature and inviting others to the meetings.

A five-weeks’ tent effort at Jackson, Tenn., has resulted in the organization of a church of fourteen members. Several others there are keeping the Sabbath, and will probably unite with this church in the near future.

The Young People’s Society of the Southern Illinois Conference has decided to take up the work of selling “Bible Readings,” The Signs of the Times, and Life and Health, the proceeds to be used in home and foreign mission work.

Brethren Hampton and Maxwell, who are conducting meetings at Capital Hill, O. T., report six new Sabbath-keepers there, and the addition of ten new members to the Oklahoma City church, as a result of the meetings.

Our workers in Porto Rico are meeting with good success in the distribution of our literature there. They are selling Signs, Life and Health, and Liberty, and even “Heralds of the Morning,” besides Spanish tracts and the Spanish Signs of the Times.

The brethren at Peoria, Ill., are evidently planning to do a systematic work in that place with our literature during the fall and winter. Tracts to the amount of thirteen and a half thousand were recently ordered of the Southern Illinois Tract Society for this work. It is a good omen, and a work which every church among us ought to be doing.

Brother E. Russell Potter, who is working with a tent company in Winnipeg, gives the following testimony to the good effects of evangelistic canvassing: “We now have five canvassers in the field, and we realize more and more the value of real evangelistic canvassing in preparing the way for the gospel ministry. Having canvassed the town last fall and delivered thirty-two copies of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons’ in it, I found a welcome to many homes, and heard many good words of appreciation for the book, and also found that it had been a means of breaking down prejudice.”

Elder J. S. Washburn reports concerning the tent-meetings at Nashville: “These meetings began May 31, and closed for the present on Wednesday night, August 22. During this time we have lost but one meeting on account of the rain, although some of the meetings held during storms have been small. The Sunday night attendance has always been encouraging, several hundred at times being in attendance, and during the week we have sometimes had more than one hundred present. Sixteen have stated their determination to keep the Sabbath with all the commandments of God, and a number of others are greatly interested, among whom are some who have just recently come to the meetings. In fact, it seems as if in a certain sense the work has only begun here, and yet we have thoroughly canvassed all the main points of our message.”

For some time the Elizabeth [N. J.] Librarian has been sending in frequent yearly subscriptions for Liberty, Life and Health, and Signs of the Times. This week when sending in some more subscriptions, he writes: “Possibly you have been wondering why we have been sending in so many yearly subscriptions for Liberty. I will try to outline briefly the work we are doing here in Elizabeth. It may benefit some of the other churches, and we would be glad to hear from them as to how they are pressing the missionary work. Last May we organized a tract society, and began holding a missionary meeting every week. These meetings have been devoted entirely to a study of the needs of our city and plans for meeting the same. We subscribed for a club of the Signs and Liberty as our means would allow, and have increased as we were able. We take up a collection each week for the advancement of this work. Every detail of our work is taken up and studied carefully and prayerfully. We aim to have each one feel that the success of the work depends as much upon one as upon another. We have sent Liberty to the councilmen, judges, and all office-holders that we can reach. With this last club we shall try to supply the lawyers. We send The Signs of the Times to the hospitals and some reading-copies. We keep a rescue mission supplied with our old periodicals. I am sure the Lord provides ways and means if we only obey him.” —Missionary News Letter.