p. 365 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

AT the Tabernacle in Battle Creek, Mich., March 26, sixteen candidates went forward in the ordinance of baptism.

ELDER D. C. HUNTER reports the baptism of eight persons at Paso Robles, Cal., as the result primarily of Bible work.

ELDER G. W. ANGLEBARGER reports the church at Cheyenne, Wyoming, as greatly strengthened and encouraged of late.

THE address of Elder J. N. Loughborough, and of the Chicago Mission, has been changed to 51 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Correspondents will please make a note of the change.

WHEN last heard from, Elder M. C. Wilcox, editor of the Signs, was at De Grasse, St. Lawrence County, New York, having gone to his native State with his family for a short sojourn after the adjournment of General Conference.

THE Review says: "Ground is already broken for the needed addition to the Battle Creek College building, and the work of excavation is rapidly going forward. It is intended to have the addition ready for use by the beginning of the next school year."

A LETTER from Brother W. A. Colcord, dated Denver, Colo., March 26, 1893, says: "Brother A. T. Jones and I are here engaged in conducting an institute. There is a good attendance and evident desire to hear and learn. From here we go to Fremont, Nebraska."

SISTER M. L. BROCK writes from Oklahoma City, under date March 24, expressing thanks for eight copies of the Signs that some friend of her work has been sending regularly to her. Of the work in that place she says: "We fill the rack every day, and the dear Lord is blessing the work here. We have our own new church house, so it can be used for the canvassers' institute which is now in progress. There are twenty in attendance. We have great reason to praise God to-day. Last night about 10 o'clock a cyclone struck the northern part of this city and destroyed houses all around Brother Giddings. They live in a small house of two rooms, and large buildings were laid level with the ground; but God cared for his own. Oh, we do praise his holy name to-day! We need late copies of all our periodicals to use in our rack work."

In a report to the Union Record, Brother J. E. Frazee says: "A colored man told me that their preacher had preached a good sermon to them from Revelation, and they asked him how he knew so much about Revelation. He told them that he got it from 'Bible Readings' that a brother had bought." That book is a great preacher.

ELDER M. H. BROWN, formerly of Wisconsin, the newly elected secretary and treasurer of the International Sabbath School Association, arrived in Oakland on the 27th ult., in company with the returned General Conference delegates from California. He has taken hold of his official work, and besides has preached twice for the Oakland church.

LAST week we mentioned the threats of violence made against Elder L. H. Crisler at Grand Island, Florida. We since learn through the Review that he was brutally assaulted on March 20, while waiting at the post office for his mail. A man approached him from behind, struck him in the back of the head with a heavy hammer, knocking him down, and then kicked him until he was all bespattered with blood. After rising to his feet and starting to seek a place of safety, he was again knocked down. This mob spirit has been cherished by professors of religion; it would not otherwise have grown to such an extent, because it is in the churches that the bitterest opposition to the commandments of God exists.