FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 17, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 24.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

SOUTH DAKOTA has fifty-five students at Union College, College View, Nebraska.

ELDER J. W. BAGBY, of Illinois, has removed with his family to College Place, Wash., where he has purchased property.

SISTER S. L. WALRATH, of Warm Springs, Cal., desires us to say that she has all the papers she can use at present.

ELDER F. I. RICHARDSON began meetings at Covert, Mich., March 10, and in two weeks twenty-five had decided to obey the message presented.

A CANVASERS' institute will be held in Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash., commencing the 20th inst. and continuing two weeks.

ELDER W. B. HILL reports encouraging results and prospects from labor in North Dakota the past winter, although the weather was unusually severe.

AT a meeting at Verndale, Minnesota, April 14 to 16, the new house of worship was dedicated. Elder N. W. Allee, president of the Conference, was present.

ELDER C. W. FLAIZE, president of the Minnesota Sabbath School Association, has been designated by the General Conference to open up the work in Manitoba.

AS A result of meetings held in a Bremer County, Iowa, schoolhouse, by Brother L. F. Starr, ten persons are keeping "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."

ELDER J. F. HANSEN, whose labors are for the most part in behalf of Scandinavians, has left Brooklyn, New York, and gone to Chicago in accordance with the recommendation of the General Conference.

WE always look with interest for news from Ford's Store and Rock Hall, Maryland. Those companies were raised up under bitter opposition, and have attracted considerable attention. So long as their enemies continue to oppose them, we know they are all right, for under such circumstances they will lean hard on the Lord. When the opposition stops, their real danger sets in. There are so few, comparatively, who can grow in grace under the allurements of an outwardly favorable situation. A report of Elder E. E. Franke in the Union Record states that the Methodist ministers at those two places are extending their opposition to our work at Millington, where there is a good interest.

A MOST encouraging forecast of labor in Minnesota is presented by the canvassers' institute at St. Cloud, where ninety-seven attendants were enrolled on the 1st inst. Elder J. H. Durland and Professor Loughhead, of Union College, were present to aid in the institute work.

THE Minnesota Worker says: "Brother J. F. Pogue has returned from the Bermuda Islands, where he and his brother Mark have been for several months. During this time they have canvassed all the islands and have taken about 800 orders for 'Bible Readings.' They report success in delivering."

BROTHER N. F. BURGESS, of Honolulu, in writing to this office on business, adds these interesting items: "No doubt you have heard of the troubles in the government here; but while there is turmoil and dissatisfaction in the breasts of the politicians, everything outwardly is quiet. We see the advance of the enemy and his forces, preparing for the final scenes of this world's ending. There has been one Sabbath keeper added to our numbers since we last wrote. This is a young Norwegian from a ship that came into this port. He had experienced religion in the colonies last December, and there became a member of the Baptist Church. He is a bright young man, and is hungering and thirsting after righteousness. His desire is to labor for Christ. He began right away to pay the tithe, with no lesson on that subject excepting the reading of the invitation and reproof in Malachi. I trust it may be a profitable lesson for us here to see one so willing and humble. Should the way open for him to prepare himself to labor for the Lord, he hopes to do so. He believes the Lord sent him here to do so. We have taken him to our own home and made him as one of our family, which he truly is if we are God's children."