Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 19, 1906

FOURTEEN adults have taken their stand for the truth at Alpena Pass, Ark., and a Sabbath-school of thirty members has been organized there by M. H. Gregory, who is conducting a tent-meeting in that place.

THE report of the South Dakota Conference and camp-meeting at Woonsocket, June 7-17, states that “many were converted, and all felt refreshed, and went to their homes to live the message of truth more faithfully in their daily lives.” South Dakota will have five tent companies in the field this season.

THE Northern Union Reaper reports the baptism of sixteen persons at the close of the Rock Lake, N. D., camp-meeting, several of whom took their stand for the first time at that meeting. One of the general laborers stated that he had never attended a meeting where there was such a manifest seeking after God. The camp-meeting came at the close of a tent effort, and helped many to decide.

A PLAN of work which seems to promise good success has been adopted by Brethren Sims and Mogle at Willows, Cal. The attendance at the tent being small, and feeling that there were many in that place who should hear the message, they began publishing a little paper twice a week, containing synopses of the sermons. These were distributed free to the homes of the people, the expense of the enterprise being borne by advertising secured from the merchants of the place. Considerable interest is thus being awakened.

AMONG the resolutions adopted by the South Dakota Conference at its session in Woonsocket, were five devoted to the new journal Liberty. They contained the following recommendations: That a religious liberty collection be taken up on July 7 throughout the conference for the purpose of furnishing Liberty to each member of the legislature, and otherwise to promulgate the principles of liberty as the State interests may demand; that the various churches in the conference appoint religious liberty secretaries to look after local interests in religious liberty lines; that as far as possible the churches place copies of Liberty in the hands of county and municipal officers and other persons of influence; that the delegates take up the work of seeing that every family in each church becomes a subscriber to Liberty; and that suitable persons be encouraged to take up the work of selling Liberty and securing yearly subscriptions.