Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 8, 1904

AN enrolment of thirty-five pupils is reported in the industrial school at Maplewood, Minn.

THE third annual session of the West Michigan Conference will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Grand Rapids, Jan. 20-25, 1905.

THE Indiana Reporter says: “The facts interest at Martinsville is as good as at any time since the camp-meeting. Our workers are giving many readings to families in their homes. We confidently look for a good church to be raised up there.”

ELDER J. O. CORLISS writes from Hanford, Cal.: “I had two glorious meetings here yesterday [November 12] in the interest of foreign mission work. People were present from miles about, and the large house of worship was crowded. Good impressions were evidently made.”

BROTHER W. R. UCHTMANN says of the work in New Bedford, Mass.: “The work in New Bedford is very encouraging. Not only are the people opening their houses for Bible readings, but the pastors are actually opening their pulpits to hear our truth, and are themselves helping to sell our literature from their platforms, and that on Sunday.”

IN a report of the canvassing work in Missouri, Brother G. Phillips says: “One of our canvassers took $37.50 worth of orders in one day, and the next day the same one took over fifty dollars' worth. Yesterday the same humble canvasser made seventeen exhibitions, and took seventeen orders,—value $51.50,—and yet some people tell us ‘times are too hard to sell books.’”

REPORTING from West Pennsylvania, Elder E. J. Dryer says: “Elder Longacre’s two tent efforts in Washington, Pa., have resulted in adding a number of good souls to the little company there, and they are now planning to build a new church in another part of the city. Elder Baierle also had a successful effort in Charleroi. Elder Schwartz reports eight new Sabbath-keepers from his summer’s effort, and several more this fall as he visited the scattered companies. Elder McVagh is doing a most excellent work among the churches in the northeastern part of the conference, where the companies had greatly decreased in numbers during the past few years. In several places where the truth was preached years ago new interests are springing up.”