Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 22, 1904

Twenty persons were baptized at the Southern Illinois camp-meeting.

The Kansas Worker of August 17 reports: “A nice church was organized at Chanute last Sabbath, with a full set of officers. Meetings closed there the thirteenth.”

Elder H. W. Herrell sends the following report from Farnham, Va.: “After our camp-meeting, we pitched our tent again at Farnham. Sixteen have decided to observe the Sabbath of Jehovah, as a result of the meetings thus far. We are now going to build a church here.”

Elder F. D. Starr, who, with Elder C. J. Rider, is laboring in Idaho, writes from Coeur d’Alene under date of September 8: “We are now holding tent-meetings in this town, having just concluded a series of tent-meetings in Colville, Wash., as the result of which a small company was formed, and three were baptized.”

We note the following among the resolutions passed at the recent Missouri State camp-meeting:—

“As the work in Washington, D. C., is in accordance with the light the Lord has given us,—

“Resolved, That we express our hearty sympathy for the work there, and help it forward by generous donations.”

The West Michigan Herald says it understands there will be twenty-five church-schools in the West Michigan Conference this year. Of the Battle Creek school it says: “The Battle Creek church-school opened Tuesday, September 6, with an enrolment of over one hundred and thirty pupils. They have an excellent faculty, and the prospects are favorable for a good school the coming year. The school has twelve grades this year.”

The Pacific Union Recorder speaks as follows of the present prosperity of the St. Helena Sanitarium: “Notwithstanding the heavy travel from California to the St. Louis Fair, our patronage is excellent. More than seventy patients are now at the sanitarium, and there are six nurses with cases outside of the institution, and other calls have been received which we are unable to fill. Business for the first six months of 1904 was thirty-three and a third per cent better than during the same period of last year. If it continues so the remainder of the year, this will be one of the five best years financially ever experienced by the sanitarium, and, we believe, second to none in gaining influence with the people.”