FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 18.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE brethren at Tyner, Iowa, are about to erect a house of worship on a lot donated for that purpose.

ELDER N. C. McCLURE, of California, met with the church at Kansas City, Missouri, on the 11th ult., while en route to the General Conference.

ON the 25th ult. twenty-one persons were baptized at Healdsburg, Cal., and united with the church of that place. The week following a half dozen or more were added.

SISTER SARAH L. POTTS, of Montesano, Wash., desires us to say to those who are sending papers to her for missionary work, that she has plenty for present use.

ELDER DAN. T. JONES, of the General Conference Committee, when last heard from had been unable, on account of sickness, to attend the meetings of the ministerial institute or General Conference.

ELDER J. W. WATT reports six accessions of the faith at Helena, Montana. There is now a Sabbath school at that place of twenty members. Brother Watt also organized a church of nine members at Belgrade.

A LADY in Enfield, Ill., sends subscription for the SIGNS, and adds this commendation: "Your paper just suits us. It is like reading the Scriptures. Your arguments are so plain and substantial. I cannot find a better paper anywhere."

A NEW church building was dedicated at Terre Haute, Indiana, January 22, by Elders J. M. Rees, W. A. Young, and F. D. Starr. The membership is twenty-six. It is about eight months since the Adventist faith was first preached in that place. Two Bible workers are now engaged in the city.

OF the work in Western Africa Elder L. C. Chadwick says: "The truth came to Sierra Leone first through reading matter, and there are a few there who are obeying it, but they have to meet great opposition. They hear it said, 'These people have no church and no minister to conduct the work, and it will soon go to pieces.' The people are not naturally constituted to lead themselves; they must have a mission, a preacher, a school, and someone to teach their children. I told them I would try to do what I could to have their wants supplied by the General Conference. Further out, in Liberia, the work was started by Brother Gaston, of the Washington, D. C., church. I visited the Gold Coast, also where the truth has reached the people by reading matter. After spending some months in this tropical country, and having learned the natural instability of the people, I found the work on the Gold Coast in a much better condition than I had expected. A few of the brethren there can speak English. I gave them some instruction, but did not baptize anyone, preferring to leave that till a later time. There are on this coast about fifty or sixty people obeying the truth, and they had never seen a Seventh-day Adventist until I visited them."

A CATALOGUE just received from the publishing house at Basel, Switzerland, shows that the truths which are proclaiming to the world are there being issued in the following languages: French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Hollandish, Hungarian, Bohemian, Polish, Turkish-Armenian, and Turkish-Greek.

BROTHER C. M. GARDNER tells of interesting meetings in Olin, Iowa, where the ministers of other denominations are "very kind and courteous." It may seem strange to some people why this fact should be deemed worthy of note. They will probably be more surprised when they learn that such experience is quite rare with our itinerant ministry. Brother Gardner had been invited to occupy one of the pulpits in the place on Sunday.