Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 17, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 46.

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A NEW Sabbath-school has been organized at Decatur, Ark.

FOUR members were recently added to the church at Isabella, O. T.

FOUR persons have recently united with the church at Minneapolis, Minn.

THERE has been a recent increase of five in the membership of the church at Springdale, Ark.

ELDER J. O. BEARD reports the addition of four members to the church at Winterset, Iowa.

ELDER F. H. CONWAY reports that “five earnest souls have taken their stand for the truth” at Checotah, I. T.

AT the local camp-meeting at Buffalo Gap, Tex., twelve persons experienced conversion, and sixteen united with the Buffalo Gap church.

THE treatment rooms in Milwaukee, Wis., have been reopened, and are now located at 137 Oneida Street. They are in charge of W. F. Smith.

CHURCH-SCHOOLS have recently been opened in the Upper Columbia Conference at Cove, Milton, and Union, Ore.; Boise, Caldwell, and Cambridge, Idaho; and College Place and Natchez Valley, Wash.

A CHURCH building is in process of erection at Eldorado, Kan. Money for a church building is being raised by the company at Leavenworth; work on a house of worship is about to be begun at Glenelder; and the new company at Hepler will either buy a house of worship or build one.

ELDER JOHN HOFFMAN, who has been laboring in Finland for a number of years, has now moved to Sweden. He expects to work in the future in the northern part of that country, where nothing has as yet been done. He writes that they have been away from America so long that the authorities are not willing to renew their passports, which, with other reasons, causes them to move to Sweden.

THE Indiana Reporter of November 9 says: “The Indianapolis brethren and sisters met in their new house of worship last Sabbath. The building is completed, but the furnishings are not all in.” It adds that “the prospects for our canvassing work are brighter now than for many months in the past.”

REPORTING from Clarksburg, W. Va., where the camp-meeting in that State was held, Elder B. F. Purdham says: “Brother J. S. James and I are following up the work at Clarksburg with a tent effort. Four have accepted the truth already, and we hope soon to see a good church organized at this place.”

ELDER CLARENCE SANTEE, of the Southern California Conference, says in a recent report from that field: “At Fernando there were thirteen baptized the first of October. October 8, three were baptized in San Diego. There will also be a baptism at Santa Ana the twenty-second, if all is well.”

THE London publishing house is at present at work on a small volume of “Bible Readings” in the Zulu. Besides the books, the readings will also be printed on loose sheets, each sheet containing a complete reading. These will be very convenient for distribution, especially among those who can not afford a copy of the book.

AT the recent local camp-meeting held at Gage, O. T., about thirty tents were pitched, and there was a good attendance toward the close of the meeting. A report from Elder G. F. Haffner says: “The Lord came very near on Sabbath and Sunday, and souls were converted and backsliders reclaimed. About six asked for baptism, but as the time was short, we preferred to postpone baptism till they return home.”

ELDER ARMITAGE writes from the Somabula Mission: “We are all well at present, and our school work is progressing. We have thirty-one with us now, and fifteen more come in every day from the kraals, so we have all we can do. We have pupils from eight different tribes, so there are that many languages spoken here. Some of these are from beyond the Zambesi. We now have an attendance of from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five at Sabbath services.”

BROTHER W. H. WAKEHAM writes: “The great difficulty here is the language. While we have a few tracts in the Arabic tongue, we have nothing, scarcely, suitable for the Moslem. For six months I have had a little book on the prophecies of Daniel translated and ready for the press, but we have no money to print it. Something of that nature, or something along health lines, would be more acceptable to the Moslem readers than the usual doctrinal tracts. And if we could have something like ‘Steps to Christ’ for the Christian population, it would be of great value. But it is useless to talk of making our publishing work self-supporting in a country like this, until we have a larger constituency than we have at present.”