Field Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 14, 1902

A CHURCH of fourteen members has recently been organized at Fredonia, N. Y.

THE church at Lynchburg, Va., have secured a permanent place of worship, by the purchase of a beautiful little church building on Park Avenue.

ELEVEN Protestant denominations are now engaged in missionary work in Cuba. Already there are over 2,000 members of the Protestant churches, and over 3,000 children in the Sunday schools.

BRETHREN B. L. HOUSE and W. W. Miller report that five adults have accepted the truth under their labors with the tent at Coshocton, Ohio. The attendance at the meetings is regular, and some are deeply interested.

IN India there are 669,000 widows under twenty years of age. Of these, 79,000 are under nine years of age; 237,400 are between the ages of ten and fourteen. Of all ages and castes there are in India almost 27,000,000 widows.

TENT meetings at Scranton, Pa., which have recently been concluded, have brought six earnest souls into the truth, and left others in a hopeful condition. Seven persons from Honesdale and Hawley have been baptized since the June camp meeting.

BROTHER J. B. BECKNER, writing from Jamaica on the anniversary of his arrival there one year ago, says that the year has not only passed quickly but pleasantly. He rejoices in the privilege of engaging in the work in that field. Twenty have recently taken their stand on the Lord’s side. Another church is now being erected.

Two miners, heads of families, who not long ago began keeping the Sabbath at Mt. Kembla, Australia, were refused further work in the mines at that place because they would not give up their convictions of right and work on the seventh day. They left Mt. Kembla, and scarcely were they settled in a neighboring town when a fearful explosion wrecked the mine they had left, killing ninety men. Thus was godliness “profitable unto all things” to these brethren.

SIXTEEN church schools have been established in Minnesota, and five more are in prospect. The list, with names of teachers, is as follows:— St. Paul (English), Mrs. Lillian Stevens; St. Paul (Scandinavian), Anna Nelson; Minneapolis, Celia Tichenor; Dodge Center, Emma Collins, Mrs. Libbie Collins; Sauk Center, Mrs. Ella Dimond, Blanche Shaw; Drywood, Mrs. Iva Jackson; Eagle Bend, Martha Franklin; New York Mills, Thirza Mason; Moose Lake, Maude Detamore; St. Cloud, Frances Rew; Anoka, Mrs. Iva Catlin; Medford, Caroline Hopkins; Good Thunder, Elma Detamore; Wells, Andrew Gilbert; Hendricks, Mabel Dimond; Stewartville, Winnie Collins.