FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 22.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

OUR general canvassing agent, Brother F. L. Mead, reports book sales for the year 1892 to the value of $707,677.65.

A GENERAL meeting for the brethren in the Maritime Provinces will be held at Moncton, New Brunswick, May 10 to 14.

ELDER H. NICOLA, of the Iowa Conference, has been assigned to Battle Creek, Mich., to act as pastor of that large and growing church.

ELDER S. N. HASKELL arrived in California from Michigan on the 22d inst., and went directly to his home at St. Helena. He made a short stop at Reno, Nevada.

SISTER SHAFFER has started a Chinese school in Salt Lake City. Five of her pupils are Christians. Our people are just waking up to the importance of the Chinese work, and of utilizing the people of that nation who are at our very doors.

A SCENE of great encouragement to the friends of Union College, at College View, Nebraska, was witnessed on the 12th ult., when forty-three persons, mostly students, went forward in baptism. The ordinance was administered by Elder E. W. Farnsworth.

OUR sisters in Salt Lake City have formed a Ladies' Benevolent Society, and meet every Sunday afternoon to make clothing for the poor and get them prepared to come to Sabbath school. Some of the prominent people of the city have made donations of money and clothing.

ELDER L. H. CRISLER has been having a peculiar experience on Grand Island, Lake County, Florida. The opposition (which always and everywhere comes from the churches), after their ablest ministers could not dislodge the truth, turned up in the shape of a threat publicly posted at the post office. The threat of violence if he did not leave by a certain date, purported to come from a White Cap club. But he did not heed the threat, and when he could no longer use the schoolhouse for meetings, repaired to a private residence. The posted threat resulted in a remonstrance from a large number of residents in the neighborhood. Fanatical opposition to the word of God often overshoots the mark, and turns out for the advantage of the truth.

THE Tract Society librarian of Seattle, Wash., writes: "Our society is placing our periodicals in depots, reading rooms, and on about a dozen boats, but finds it difficult to get papers enough. Back numbers of the Signs, Review, Sentinel, Instructor, and Scandinavian periodicals, if sent postpaid to E. T. Cornell, 309 Poplar Street, Seattle, Wash., will be thankfully received and put to good use."

ELDER D. T. SHIREMAN, on returning to North Carolina from the General Conference, reports to the Review a very encouraging prospect. Of the brethren at Asheville he says, "They have been receiving the latter rain." Brother J. O. Johnston, who has been laboring there, will shortly enter a new field in South Carolina. Brother S. B. Sanborn has aroused quite an interest among the colored people of Asheville.

ELDER R. N. BROCK reports the organization of a church of thirteen members at Columbia, Oklahoma. Also the decision of four heads of families at Dover to obey the commandments of God. A new house of worship is being built at Oklahoma City, and as the field is new, and the cause as yet financially weak, assistance would be thankfully received. Brother Brock suggests donations from twenty-five cents to ten dollars, but not in stamps.

AFTER reporting the names of the General Conference Committee, as published two weeks ago, some changes were made and two more names were added to the committee. Therefore we deem it of interest to re-insert the names of the entire committee, which are as follows: O. A. Olsen, S. N. Haskell, W. W. Prescott, J. N. Loughborough, W. C. White, A. J. Breed, E. W. Farnsworth, R. M. Kilgore, J. H. Durland, I. D. Van Horn, D. A. Robinson.