FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1892

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER O. A. OLSEN left Oakland, Cal., on the 24th inst. for the East, going by way of Portland, Oregon, and Walla Walla, Washington.

ELDER H. J. FARMAN baptized eight persons at Providence, Rhode Island, November 5, seven of whom united with the church there.

SEVENTEEN accessions to the faith is the result of meetings held in Boone County, Ark., by Brethren J. A. Sommerville and W. F. Martin.

ELDER F. M. ROBERTS reports the organization of missionary societies, taking clubs of our periodicals, at New Lebanon and Chapel Olivet, Indiana.

At Padua, Illinois, as a result of schoolhouse meetings conducted by Elder E. A. Merrell, seven began the observance of the Lord's Sabbath.

THE increase of the German work in Kansas has necessitated the selection of a Conference secretary who can speak and write both German and English.

IN connection with meetings held at Coleta, Illinois, by Elder L. D. Santee and Brother G. B. Thompson, eight were added to the little company scattered about in that vicinity.

ELDER W. D. CURTIS, who spent six years in Australia and returned to America on the Pitcairn, left Oakland on the 27th inst. for the Illinois field. He was accompanied by his family.

SARAH L. POTTS, Montesano, Wash., desires papers and tracts with which to supply a distributer at the railroad station. There is no society there from which the one family, mother and two children, can draw reading matter. Although alone in the place, they desire to work for the Master, and their efforts should be encouraged. Send all matter postpaid.

ANYONE knowing the address of A. B. Hodges, a member of the S. D. A. Church of Los Angeles, Cal., will confer a favor by making it known to Walter T. Knox, 525 South Pearl Street, Los Angeles.

ELDER G. C. TENNEY writes to the Review from Melbourne, Australia, that "our canvassers in New South Wales have lately found several who are keeping the Sabbath as the result of reading 'Great Controversy.'"

BROTHER E. M. MORRISON, who has labored in the work of instructing canvassers in America, Australia, South Africa, Europe, and Great Britain, has returned to South Africa, to look after the book interest in that field.

THE Bible Echo reports that the health of Mrs. E. G. White has been improving since her sojourn in Adelaide, and it is hoped she will be able to return to Melbourne in time to attend the Conference, which will be held during the holidays.

A SECOND course of meetings at Huntsville, Alabama, by Brother A. P. Heacock, brought six more members into the fold. One colored brother there is canvassing with good success. At Athens Brother Heacock was allowed the use of the Christian Church in which to hold meetings.

ELDER C. P. HASKELL reports a successful series of meetings at Conneaut, Ohio. Thirty had accepted the faith, and a Sabbath school of forty members had been organized. The fact that a Methodist minister had spoken against the work had the good effect of helping it along.

THE missionary ship Pitcairn is now at the shipyard at Benicia, California, undergoing some alterations. The foremast is being square rigged, and the vessel, instead of being a fore-and-aft schooner, as heretofore, will be what is known as a hermaphrodite brig. The forecastle is also being enlarged. It is expected that the Pitcairn will start on her second voyage about January 1.

BROTHER H. CLAY GRIFFIN, secretary of the Arkansas Tract Society, writes: "As this society is recognized by the Post Office Department as a news agency, which gives us pound rates on all periodicals, and as there is a vast field for missionary work in our State, we respectfully solicit copies of any and all S. D. A. publications for free distribution. Send postpaid, to my address, Van Buren, Arkansas." [Review and Sentinel please copy.]

At Rock Hall, Maryland, November 13, a Methodist minister entered complaint against Brother Judefind for husking corn on Sunday. The defendant was fined $5.00 and costs. The case was appealed, and will come before the County Court in April. This minister could have found plenty of other people working on the same day, among them some of his own church, but he didn't want to prosecute anybody but those who kept the seventh-day Sabbath.

ELDER C. McREYNOLDS and BROTHER F. I. ROFFE report to the Review an encouraging season at Ava, Perry County, Arkansas. Nineteen persons signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Among this number were two Freewill Baptist ministers and a justice of the peace. One of these ministers had been preaching some of the doctrines to his people previously, and himself kept the seventh-day Sabbath. Some copies of "Bible Readings" had been sold in that place a year before, and had created considerable interest. These brethren had some rather romantic experience in traveling through the mountainous regions of Southern Arkansas. About seventy miles were traveled in an ox wagon, and one frosty night they were compelled to camp in the mountains.