Field Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Assn. · Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1904

A CANVASSERS' institute will be held in Armstrong, Mo., January 22 to February 1.

A CHURCH of twelve members was organized at Lindsay, Ontario, November 14.

A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty members, of whom eleven are adults, has been organized at Plainfield, N. J.

THE company at Fergus Falls, Minn., now numbers nineteen, and at the time of a recent report several others were awaiting baptism. The Sabbath-school membership is fifty-two.

ELDER G. F. WATSON announces a general meeting for Colorado, to be held in Boulder, beginning January 8. The president of the Central Union Conference, Elder E. T. Russell, will be at this meeting. In connection with the meeting there will be a canvassers' institute.

A CHURCH of nineteen members was organized at Palisades, Colo., November 8. Meetings have been held in the Methodist house of worship, but the company now have a neat church building of their own nearly completed. There is a prosperous Sabbath-school, with a membership of about fifty.

IN a report from New Brunswick, Brother W. R. Andrews observes: “There is no part of the work that gives me such genuine satisfaction as getting our literature into the hands of the people. I find that the ones who read themselves into the truth make more stanch Adventists than those who are preached in.”

ELDER D. H. OBERHOLTZER reports that there are now fifty pupils in the church school at Thayer, Kan. At a recent Sabbath service fifteen responded to a call to the unconverted to begin the service of God, and the next day the same number of persons were baptized. Besides these, four were received into the church by vote and ten by letter, making twenty-nine additions in all.

FOUR persons have accepted the Sabbath truth in Leavenworth, Kan., as a result of Bible work conducted there by several sisters since last midsummer. Bible readings are being held in more than thirty families. A church school of twenty members has been started. One lady took her daughter out of the Catholic school, and put her in the church school, and was greatly pleased with the change.

A DESCRIPTION of the new sanitarium which has been established in St. Louis, Mo., states that it “is an eighteen-room house situated near the outskirts of the city of St. Louis, in a most healthful and pleasant locality, with a large lawn and lovely shade trees, all the surroundings being conducive to health. It is equipped with every kind of bath used in the treatment of disease, as well as electrical instruments, an X-ray machine, an aseptic operating room, surgical ward, etc. No meat is served in the institution, and the meals are appetizing and hygienic. With the help of God and under his guidance we hope always to stand for all that is good, and for nothing that is displeasing to him.” The institution is now ready for patients. The address is 5846 Cabanne Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

THE following interesting report from Monte Vista, Colo., which place has been recently under quarantine for smallpox, comes from Brother M. Mackintosh: “The quarantine has been lifted just in time for us to enjoy the week-of-prayer services. For weeks the smallpox has raged on every side of us, but God in his mercy has seen fit to preserve us: not a single member of our company has been sick. In one block there are seven houses; three of them are occupied by our people, and notwithstanding the fact that the other four have contained victims of the scourge, our people have been unharmed. Truly it reminds us of the time when in Egypt the angel passed over the homes of God's people. May we ever keep the blood upon the lintels. When the State inspector was here, some one asked him, ‘Why don't those Adventists get the smallpox?’ The reply was, ‘Simply because they do not eat pork and live like other folks.’ Brethren, what a lesson on health reform! Our first meeting yesterday took the form of a praise meeting, in which we praised God for his deliverance. I have been holding meetings in different parts of the valley, and several are about to accept the third angel's message.”