Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 5, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 18.

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THIRTEEN persons were baptized at Eureka, Kan., April 10.

A COURSE of tent-meetings is to be held in Chanute, Kan., beginning early in May.

A CHURCH of about twenty members will be organized at Antelope, O. T., in the near future.

SABBATH, February 27, four young people were baptized, and united with the church at Calcutta, India.

EIGHT new members have been added to the Little Rock, Ark., church during the quarter ending March 31.

BROTHER J. R. BAGBY reports eight new Sabbath-keepers at Texmo, O. T., as a result of meetings held in a schoolhouse there last March.

FROM the Kansas Worker we learn that there are “several new Sabbath-keepers at Hiawatha,” also “some new additions at Fort Scott.”

THE attendance at the Kalamazoo, Mich., Sabbath-school has recently increased from fifteen to forty members. The young people’s work is also being revived.

FIVE persons were baptized at Hutchins, Tex., April 2, at the conclusion of a course of tent-meetings conducted by Brother Andrew Nelson, four of these uniting with the church at that place.

MISS ANNA KNIGHT is now connected with the Karmatar training-school. She is enjoying her work among the children, and writes that they find their hands full. They were preparing to plant fifty fruit-trees.

THE new year in Union College opened with an attendance of ninety-three students. One half of these came from the homes of people who are not Seventh-day Adventists. Fourteen of these are in the home.

A SCHOOL with an enrolment of fifteen has been organized in Rangoon, Burma. Brother Myers reports a meeting at the home of one of our Burmese sisters, where a large number of English-speaking Burmese assembled.

A COURSE of meetings at Allmon, O. T., conducted by Brother J. B. Hampton, resulted in bringing eight souls to accept the truths presented. A further effort by Brother Hampton at a schoolhouse four miles from Allmon resulted in the conversion of two more.

BROTHER J. M. FREEMAN reports the baptism of four recently at their mission in Basutoland. The names chosen by the baptized were as follows: William, formerly Ramolise; Florry, formerly Marebuthe; Paulina, formerly Mamohloe; Adelina, formerly Mamotseitse.

ALL will rejoice to know that another city in India is soon to be entered by our missionaries. Arrangements have been made for Elder Harry Armstrong to go to Colombo, Ceylon. The island of Ceylon has a population of three million, and is without a single representative of the third angel’s message. The canvassers have gone before him, so the field is ready for the harvester. We believe the blessing of the Lord will go with Brother Armstrong.