Encouraging Reports from the Field.
By Editor
ELDER MATTESON writes encouragingly of the work in Sweden. In a report of Oct. 15, he says:— “September 25, I came to Stockholm. On the following Monday Brother Norlin came home from a tour in Norland. He has been absent less than three months, and has received during that time for subscriptions, and books sold, about $243. The people have, as a general thing, been very kind to him, and often entertained him free of charge. He has held a few meetings here and there, where opportunity was given, and reports the people in that part of the country as more religiously inclined, and less prejudiced, than in any other part. The farthest point reached was Lulea, about six hundred miles north of Stockholm. He has707visited the cities, and traveled on foot through the country. In Unua he was permitted to speak in a Lutheran meeting-house, belonging to the State church. In Hernisand he obtained fifty subscribers for our papers, and in Solleftea, forty. Some became interested in the truth. In Kubikenborg, are three Sabbath-keepers, in Helsingland eight, in Torp four, and a few others have commenced in other places.” CONCERNING the work in Roumania Elder A. C. Bourdeau writes:— “I have now labored in Roumania three months. The church in Pitesti now comprises fourteen members, who seem to be firmly established in the faith, and to be of good courage. Brother Toma G. Aslan and his brother, Mitica M. Aslan—two of those who have interested themselves in a special manner in the study of Present Truth—have already commenced to work in the cause, and we have reason to hope that God will assist them, and grant them success in their labors. “I have baptized three more persons, and have made arrangements for four others to be baptized as soon as practicable. The friends of truth there have taken off their jewelry, and have laid aside the use of intoxicating wines, tobacco, tea, swine's flesh, etc. They enjoy having family worship in their dwellings, appreciate their worship on the Sabbath, and their prayer and social meetings; and their Sabbath-school is calculated to impart instruction and courage to all those who attend it.” FROM McKinney, Collin Co., Texas, Brethren J. M. Huguley and W. T. Drummond write, under date of Oct. 27, as follows:— “Since our last report we have given thirty-six discourses, making thirty-seven in all. We held two Bible-readings, and conducted three Sabbath-schools. We have had to meet in debate two Campbellite ministers. The truth has triumphed, with between thirty-five and forty adults keeping the Sabbath as a result. The opposing side took the old positions of the abolition of the law, and no Sabbath, which was very unsatisfactory to the people. There is a great work to be done here yet, as others are almost persuaded, and most of those who have taken their stand on the Sabbath are strongly wedded to that idol, tobacco. We expect to visit them Sabbaths and Sundays until an organization can be effected, and they all become rooted and grounded in the truth.” FROM Plymouth, Ind., Brother J. P. Henderson reports the organization of a church of eighteen members, and Brother Anglebarger reports ten additions to the church in Springfield, Ohio. Cheering reports also come from other parts of the field.