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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 16.

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FIELD NOTES.

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ELDER J. B. GOODRICH reports ten accessions to the faith in Westfield, Maine.
ELDER O. S. FERREN reports the baptism of six persons at Oronoque, Kansas.
UNTIL further notice, the post office address of Elder H. A. St. John will be 143 Carr Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
SISTER T. L. LAWSON, Salem, Oregon, asks for clean copies of the Signs, Sentinel, Review, or Instructor, for missionary work, to be sent to her postpaid.
ELDER D. T. SHIREMAN rejoices over a good interest at Cowan's Ford, in the southeastern part of North Carolina, where profitable meetings have recently been held.
FOUR persons were baptized and united with the church at Wilmington, Delaware, on the 24th ult. The use of the baptistry of the Baptist Church was granted for the occasion.
AT Eddyville, Iowa, eight have recently taken their stand for the truth, and a Sabbath school of fifteen members has been organized. Brother H. V. Adams had been holding meetings there.
LOTTIE MULLIN, Cottage Grove, San Jose, Cal., can use several copies of the General Conference Bulletin, if those who have no further use for them after reading them will mail them to her.
SISTER S. L. WALRATH, Warm Springs, Alameda County, California, desires clean copies of the Signs for missionary work in that vicinity. If any of our brethren have such to spare, please send them postpaid.
ELDER F. I. RICHARDSON reports the organization of a church of fifty members at Benton Harbor, Michigan, the result of meetings held at that place, Riverside, and Sodus. Elder I. W. Evans organized the church.
THE Atlantic Sabbath School Association, having accumulated something over $100 in its treasury, aside from donations to missions, has decided to appropriate it to purchasing a tent for Conference use in the field, and for children's meetings at general gatherings.
THE General Conference Bulletin, containing reports of the institute lectures during the first six days, has been received. Those who did not subscribe for it are missing some valuable instruction regarding our time and our special work as a people. The institute opened with 300 members.
ONE of our laborers in the Atlantic Conference tells this incident to the Union Record: "During the presentation of the doctrines, in a series of sermons on truth, the subject of conditional immortality was introduced, with the usual result. Among the auditors were two gentlemen, who felt constrained to oppose, through questions, and were asked to reduce them to writing. At the same time tracts upon 'The Immortality of the Soul,' 'Is Man Immortal?' etc., were given them with a request that they should be read in connection with the Bible, and that, if the tracts answered any of the questions satisfactorily, those questions should be erased from the list. One of the gentlemen declined to present his questions when asked to do so the next evening, and the other made a statement substantially as follows: 'I took this tract, sir, to the Lord, and asked him to give me faith to believe and to see the truth. As a result I am convinced. As I read the texts referred to, one after the other of my questions were erased from my list, and I now realize that the sleep of the dead is a Bible doctrine. That tract, "Immortality of the Soul," is the most masterly argument I ever read.' How true it is that 'the entrance of thy word giveth light. It giveth understanding to the simple!'"