Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 16, 1906

TEN are awaiting baptism as a result of the work done by a tent company at Niles, Mich.

QUITE a little company have taken their stand for the truth at Albion, Ind., and will soon be baptized.

AT both Oswego and Thayer, Kan., substantial buildings are being erected for church-school purposes.

AT Galena, Kan., as a result of faithful Bible work, five persons have accepted the truth, and been baptized.

AN excellent normal institute has been held in the West Michigan Conference, with about forty church-school teachers in attendance.

As a result of the tent work recently closed at Chester, Ark., ten adults are keeping the Sabbath, and there is prospect that others will join the company.

A GERMAN laborer is now holding tent-meetings in the city of Pittsburg, Pa., where there are about fifty thousand Germans who have never heard the message.

REPORTS from the tent-meetings being held at St. Cloud, Minn., indicate a growing interest there, both among the English and among the Germans. Several have already begun the observance of the Sabbath, and others are debating the matter in their own hearts.

FOUR tent efforts are in progress in Manitoba, at the following places: Winnipeg, Manitou, Regina, and Gladstone. From the last-named place Brother W. M. Adams reports the baptism of eight new Sabbath-keepers, with three or four more to be baptized a few days later.

AT Parsons, Kan., the tent-meetings have resulted in nine taking their stand for the truth and following their Lord in baptism. Four others are keeping the Sabbath, and there is good reason to believe that others who are debating the matter will yet come out strong for the truth.

ONE canvasser, who is having excellent success in his work, states that in his canvass he is making a strong point on the soon coming of the Lord. He says it is a matter of surprise that so many are willing to listen, and are so easily convinced that his coming is near at hand.

BROTHER O. E. REINKE reports the baptism of eleven adults on July 14 as a result of the tent-meetings conducted in Brooklyn, N. Y. These new converts to the faith have all joined the German Brooklyn church. A good interest is still manifested there in spite of active opposition.

MRS. W. A. SWEANY reports encouragingly from Grenada, British West Indies. They have a Sabbath-school started which numbers fifty-seven members, and there are about twenty-five ready for baptism. Very much of their work is of a colporteur nature, and the seeds of truth thus sown are bearing fruit.

THE earnest work carried on at McAlister, O. T., has borne fruit. Eleven have signified their intention of keeping the commandments of God, and Brother C. Sorenson, who has charge, expects to organize a church there before camp-meeting. It has not been without a struggle that this victory has been won. Through earnest prayer and persistent labor the sheaves are gathered in.

THE six weeks' series of meetings in Roanoke, Va., has closed. Eleven adults have taken their stand for the truth, and are ready to form a church after baptism. Quite a number besides these express their purpose to be baptized when the eleven are. A Sabbath-school of thirty members has been organized. One of these new Sabbath-keepers, who was working for the railroad company, was told that he could not be employed longer if he kept the Sabbath. But he was soon set at work again by the same foreman, with the privilege of honoring God in the keeping of the Sabbath.

AT Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, a camp-meeting was followed by a tent effort, which grew in interest until one of the ministers of the town, taking alarm, invited a minister from another locality to “expose the Adventists and their work” in his church. The tent-meeting was closed for that night that all might hear what the visiting minister had to tell the people. “The night following this meeting,” says Brother R. D. Quinn, “our tent was full, and God gave freedom and power in proclaiming the truth. An excellent interest has been awakened by the opposition, and a goodly number have decided to obey, with a good prospect before us of establishing the work strongly in this center.” To be opposed is not the worst thing that can overtake us, if we are doing the work of the Lord.