p. 21 | Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 27, 1904

Field Notes

Six members were added to the church at Altoona, Pa., October 9.

Elder R. M. Kilgore reports twelve converts to the truth at Lawrenceville, Ga., as the fruit of tent-meetings which closed at that place, September 18.

Four members were recently added by baptism to the church at Clear Lake, O. T.

A Sabbath-school of twenty-one members was organized recently at Hepler, Kan.

The believers at and near Greenbrier, Miss., were organized into a church, September 18.

At Naruna, Va., where Elder C. B. Rule was recently visited by a mob who took down his tent and ordered him out of the place, fifteen persons have announced their acceptance of the Sabbath truth.

A report from Jennings Lake, Fla., where there is a newly organized church, says: “We conducted the first quarterly meeting Sabbath, September 10. Three united with the church and were baptized. Several more will soon join. The present membership is twenty-six.”

In a report of work at Martinsville, Ind., the Indiana Reporter of October 12 says: “The meetings at Martinsville still continue each night, and a few are deeply interested. Several have begun the observance of the Sabbath, and Bible readings are being held with a score or more who can not well attend the meetings regularly. We are still looking for a good company to be raised up at Martinsville.”

Elder C. McReynolds reports in the Kansas Worker of October 12: “Last Sabbath will never be forgotten by many who were at the Manhattan camp-meeting. The Spirit of God came in with power, and almost the entire congregation was made to especially seek God for deliverance from power of besetting sins. Nearly all who were unconverted gave their hearts to God, and discouraged souls were renewed. Yesterday nine were buried in baptism. Others return to their homes for baptism.”

The Southern Training School, located at Graysville, Tenn., opened for the coming school year September 21, with an attendance of about seventy students. The school work was inaugurated by appropriate chapel exercises, at which words of courage and good cheer were spoken by both teachers and students.

A marked spirit of earnestness was manifested on the part of all. The regular work of the term was taken up the following day.

Sabbath afternoon an excellent devotional meeting for the students and young people was held in the Home parlor, at which a large number were present, and in which all, with but few exceptions, participated.

A Normal department has been established in connection with the school, which gives students who are preparing for the work of teaching an opportunity for practical training. This department is in charge of Mrs. C. F. Dart.

The members of the Graysville church show a disposition to join heartily with the faculty in the work of uplifting the school in all its departments.