Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 2, 1906

Seven persons at Chester, Ark., have signified their intention to keep the commandments of God.

Brother W. F. Talburt reports six converts to the faith at Allen, I. T., with several others interested.

A new church, consisting of about twenty-five members, was recently organized by Elder A. O. Burrill at Petrolia, Ontario.

Up to July 13 there had been printed of the earthquake specials of The Signs of the Times 740,000, of which 674,886 had been sold.

Brother J. E. Bond reports that five have taken their stand for the truth as a result of a series of meetings in a school-house near Phoenix, Ariz.

The members of the Mountain View, Cal., Young People's Society have started a movement for the support of a missionary in some foreign field.

The meetings conducted by Elders Shultz and Basney at Colony Centre, Cal., have resulted in the organization of a church of nine members at that place.

Brethren Lake and St. John, who are laboring at Eureka and Arcata, Cal., report five new Sabbath-keepers at the former place, and three at least at the latter.

Elder J. W. Christian reports the baptism of five persons at Swan Lake, S. D., and on the Sabbath following four others were buried with their Lord at Elk Point, S. D.

The tent-meetings by Elder W. S. Lowry at Paducah, Ky., are arousing much interest on the part of the people. A number have taken their stand, and others have promised to obey.

Twelve were baptized at Lodi, Cal., on July 14, at the close of a tent effort by Brethren C. M. Gardner and B. B. Davis. Four other adults have promised to serve God by obeying all his commandments.

The church at Farmington, N. M., recently increased its membership by the addition of six names to its church roll. The young people there are being aroused, and five have been baptized.

The church at Milwaukee, Wis., has purchased a tent costing one hundred and seventy dollars, and in this tent a strong corps of workers are now giving the message to the inhabitants of that great city.

Friends of Elder S. G. Huntington, who has been in California recently for his health, will be glad to know that he has so far recovered as to be ready for active field service again. He will labor in the Utah Conference.

On July 7 three persons were baptized at San Jose, Cal., who received their first impression of the truth through the earthquake specials of The Signs of the Times. Would not this indicate that the world is now ripe for that quick work which the Lord has promised to do in the earth?

Brother C. S. Longacre states that as a result of the circulation of religious liberty literature in Pittsburg, Pa., some friends of religious liberty were raised up who successfully resisted the Sunday-law crusade in that city the past spring. He says: “I wish our people realized how many friends of liberty they could raise up by circulating our new magazine, Liberty.”