Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 18, 1906

Four new Sabbath-keepers are reported at Winston, Mo., where Brother C. H. Chaffee has been holding meetings in a Methodist church.

It is encouraging to know that Emmanuel Missionary College opened this year with more than double the number of students it had last year.

Six persons are now observing the Sabbath of the Lord as a result of the tent-meetings held in Petersburg, Va., which closed September 23.

The meetings at Cairo, Ill., are developing a company of believers, though the exact number who will take their stand there is not yet known.

Brother E. A. Merrill reports seventeen new Sabbath-keepers as a result of a series of meetings at Versailles, Mo., which closed on September 24.

The tent work at Mablevale, Ark., is arousing the people. The attendance has steadily increased, until at the last reporting the tent could not hold the people.

The series of meetings held at Osage, Minn., by Brethren Budd and Gilbert, has resulted in eleven persons' taking their stand for the truth, and others are expected soon to follow their example.

In spite of much opposition at Pana, Ill., Brethren Huffman and Locken report that a goodly number have been convinced that the seventh day of the week is the only true Sabbath for Christians, and in harmony with their convictions have decided to obey the truth.

A new sanitarium building is being erected in the suburbs of Little Rock, Ark., and will be ready for occupancy early in December. The purpose of the directors of this institution is “to unite all lines of work into one harmonious means of carrying the message of a soon-coming Saviour to those who sit in darkness.”

The Tennessee River Conference will operate four tents this autumn until the weather becomes too cold to hold meetings. These efforts will be conducted at Nashville, Memphis, Jackson, and Bowling Green. To forestall the increase of the conference indebtedness, the brethren and sisters of Memphis have subscribed a sufficient amount to meet all the expenses of their tent-meeting.

Of the various lines of missionary work carried on in San Francisco the only one that survived the earthquake and fire was the dispensary work conducted in the Laguna Street church. A report from the workers there indicates that more has been done in that line of work since the earthquake than was done before. The dispensary work is accompanied by house-to-house visiting, and the distribution and sale of our literature.