p. 173 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 11.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER W. S. HYATT reports baptizing three persons at Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

DURING the month of November canvassers for our works in the various fields sold books to the value of $44,170.

IN Minnesota the brethren are holding institutes for the special instruction of Tract Society librarians. So says the Missouri Workers' Record.

ELDER B. J. CADY, one of the missionaries assigned to the Pitcairn, preached in the Oakland church on Sabbath, the 7th inst., from Matt. 11: 28, 29.

PROF. W. W. PRESCOTT, of Battle Creek (Mich.) College, began a series of Bible meetings in the Independent Congregational Church of that city on the 1st inst.

AS FAR as heard from, the returns show an unusually large holiday donation to foreign missions. This is as it should be, for the work ought to be greatly magnified.

SISTER SARAH L. POTTS, of Montesano, Wash., says she has all the literature she can use in missionary work for a while. Those who have been sending to her address will please take notice.

ELDER J. M. COLE and wife arrived in this city last week, from Seattle, Wash., ready to join the Pitcairn's missionary company. He preached in San Francisco Sunday evening, the 8th inst.

BROTHER N. P. DIXON recommends that lady canvassers in Missouri labor in the country, with horse and buggy for conveyance. He cites the success of sisters in Kansas to sustain the proposition.

CANVASSING agents of the Southern Division of the Australian field sold books to the value of $2,275 during the month of October last. The Echo Publishing Co. adds to the report these encouraging words: "We are glad to see the sale of the good book 'Patriarchs and Prophets' increasing, and believe it will be much appreciated. There is abundant evidence of the hand of God in our work, and there is good reason to feel of good courage and to press on, realizing the truth of the words of Paul, 'If God be for us, who can be against us?'"

ELDER L. C. CHADWICK, who has been traveling extensively during the past two years, writes to the Home Missionary: "I was impressed with the immensity of South America as a field for our books. I hope that within a few months we may have 'Patriarchs and Prophets' in the six leading languages of the country."

THE holiday number of the Youth's Instructor is a most valuable number. The cover design is elegant, yet not gaudy. The accompanying lithograph view of the World's Fair buildings at Chicago is one of the best we have seen. As a handsome and instructive youth's paper, the Instructor has no equal in its class. Eight pages; $1.00 a year; address, Battle Creek, Mich.

THE open-air meeting in this city, on the 7th inst., was unusually well attended and the audience evinced marked attention. Elders J. H. Durland and M. C. Wilcox spoke on the work of the two-horned beast of Revelation 13, and the principles of true religious liberty were expounded, to the evident gratification of many who probably never would have heard the truth anywhere else.

ONE of our brethren in Australia, who owns a fruit garden, has been informed that he must cease Sunday labor in his garden or be prosecuted. There is an English statute about three hundred years old, which is of course operative in the colonies, and may be brought out at any time the enemies of religious liberty may choose to have it enforced. The penalty is $50 fine, or imprisonment. All of a man's property, even to household effects, may be attached to satisfy judgment.

ELDER H. F. GRAF writes to the Minnesota Worker, concerning meetings held at Napoleon, in that State: "On Sabbath morning the power of God rested upon the meeting. Confessions were made very freely, and before dark five dear souls were buried with Christ in baptism. After dark a lady very much diseased and sick, who had feared the cold water, came forward and asked to be baptized. She was buried, sick as she was, in the watery grave, but was raised from it sound and healed. She says as soon as her feet touched the water she was made whole. The same evening four more gave their hearts to God. These I baptized on Sunday morning, and with them a Baptist united with the little flock."