Field Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1902

Brother G. M. Alway reports four additions to the church at Leadville, Colo., two being by baptism.

Miss Marcella A. Walker reports a pleasant voyage to Rotterdam. She expected to sail from that port for Sumatra, November 29.

In a letter from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Brother A. B. Stauffer writes that a family in the city have decided to keep the Sabbath, and that others are interested.

Two families have recently accepted the message of present truth at Avinger, Tex., mainly through the work of Brother Somerville at this place last winter.

Dr. W. W. Hills reports ten baptisms at Colorado Springs, Colo., December 3, five of them being members of the Sabbath-school class taught by Sister Finch. There is a call for another series of meetings at that place. Five persons were baptized on the occasion of a recent visit by Dr. Hills to the company at Florence.

Brother W. H. Anderson writes that a prominent missionary in South Africa has petitioned the government to have our mission banished from the country, because they teach the seventh-day Sabbath and other heretical doctrines that unsettle the native mind. Now is the time to carry our work quickly to all these fields.

Since the recent dedication of the new church building in Kansas City, Mo., meetings have been held each evening until December 7, with the result that on December 6 eight persons announced their intention to unite with the church in observing the Lord’s Sabbath. Others had previously reached a like decision, so that during the meetings sixteen additions to the church were received, three of these being by letter.

Our paltry gifts, so out of proportion to what we are spending on ourselves, belittle missionary work. No wonder that the world doubts our sincerity; we must have gifts to match our professions. We say continually that the greatest work in the world, the cause nearest the heart of Christ, is that of foreign missions, and then we back up our statements by an average gift in five of our denominations of one cent a week per member, not one quarter of what we spend for newspapers!—Hon. Samuel B. Capen.