FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 42.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER S. B. WHITNEY and Brother Carmichael have entered the Black Hills (S. D.) region with a tent, pitching at Rapid City.

AT a local camp meeting held at Phillipsburgh, Kansas, in the latter part of July, there was an attendance of about 200, and sixteen were baptized.

A SHORT series of meetings held in Livingston, Mont., just after the recent camp meeting, by Elders Watt and Stone, resulted in the baptism of seven persons.

AT Johnstown, Pa., Elder K. C. Russell and Brother L. S. Wheeler are conducting tent meetings and report a very large attendance and a remarkably good interest.

BROTHER W. T. KNOX recently began tent meetings in Tustin, Orange County, Cal., and his first Sunday evening audience was more than the seating capacity of his tent would accommodate.

MRS. NETTIE MILLER, Park Place, Oregon, expresses thanks for papers sent her for missionary work, and says that she has enough for present use, excepting some copies of the SIGNS of January 23 and February 6, 1893.

ELDER A. P. HEACOCK held a series of tent meetings in Gurley, Alabama, and there is now a company of ten holding up the banner of truth. The meetings were held amid strong opposition on the part of the churches.

BROTHER GRANT ADKINS, writing from Knoxville, Tenn., reports "one more family" walking in the light of truth, having been led to the decision partly through contemplating the persecutions and antagonisms of other churches toward those who keep the Sabbath of the Lord.

AT the recent session of the Quebec (P. Q.) Conference the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, J. B. Goodrich; Vice President, H. E. Rickard; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. A. E. Taylor; Executive Committee, J. B. Goodrich, D. Dingman, H. E. Rickard.

ELDER R. C. PORTER, president of New England Conference, reports a tour in New Hampshire by team, in the course of which he visited a number of churches and found an encouraging progress on the part of the brethren, most of whom are endeavoring to keep pace with advancing light.

ON the 16th inst. Elders M. C. Wilcox, J. H. Morrison, and F. M. Wilcox, and Dr. A. J. Sanderson, of the Rural Health Retreat, left San Francisco for Eureka, going by ocean steamer. Their mission was to attend the Northern camp meeting, which opened on the 17th inst. to continue till the 27th.

BROTHER R. C. SMITH, of Butte, Mont., has just purchased three distributors for use in that city, and solicits clean copies of our periodicals for use in this line of missionary work. Donations of denominational tracts will also be thankfully received. Address, Rooms 1 and 2, Old Owsley Block, E. Park Street, Butte, Mont.

ONE of our canvassers in New Jersey recently stopped at a farmhouse overnight. His host proved to be a local Methodist preacher who thought it "looked pretty mean" for the people in some parts of Maryland to pick out a few individuals who keep the seventh day when endeavoring to enforce the Sunday law, while ignoring everybody else who violated the law. Our brother learned that this preacher had created some dissatisfaction in the neighborhood by preaching "straight from the word," and some thought him "a little off" because he went around the country holding prayer meetings in people's houses.

THE northern California camp meeting is located at the corner of 19th and H Streets, Eureka. At the present writing, the afternoon of August 17, arrangements are rapidly nearing completion. About forty-five tents are pitched on the ground. The large pavilion is a new sixty-foot tent pitched for the first time. Everything gives promise of a good meeting.

A MOST encouraging report in the Review of the 15th inst. comes from Brother R. W. Roberson, of Dallas, Texas. Two brethren and three sisters rented a room and began holding meetings in a humble way, and in five months' time the regular Sabbath attendance had grown to forty-three. They have now an organized missionary society, and are doing Bible work in different parts of the city.

SISTER VESTA J. OLSEN, writing from Boulder, Colo., the 16th inst., says: "I attended church in Denver last Sabbath, and Elder D. T. Jones preached. He has improved much, and looks like a different man. He is planning to go to Mexico in November, but it is possible his plans may have to be changed. Elder John Fulton is some better than he has been, but there is room for greater improvement."

AS A result of tent labor by Elders R. S. Owen and W. A. McCutcheon at Gainesville, Ga., a church of nineteen members was organized on the 5th inst. They were also moving in the matter of erecting a house of worship, and ask the brethren abroad to render some assistance. The lot has been secured. Gainesville is deemed an important point, and it is important that the truth be firmly planted there, but the brethren are mostly poor, and there is much outside prejudice.

ELDER D. T. BOURDEAU, who has been laboring for some time among the French and Belgian miners in the vicinity of Willow Grove, Pa., reports a marvelous ignorance of the Bible. Writing to the Review, he says, "Most of the people here had never seen the Bible until they saw it in our hands in the pulpit." Of course these people are nearly all Catholics, and the reader will readily imagine what a task it is to get the truth before them. Surely his request for the prayers of the brethren ought to receive earnest attention. Brother B. conducted a funeral service in the neighborhood, and the contrast between his simple service and that of the Catholic Church attracted considerable attention. Just a week before there had been a funeral service conducted by the priest, and he, in an outburst of anger, "literally drove the people out of the church because they had come a little late, and were slow to pay for masses to help the dead out of purgatory." Brother B. is working specially to get the Bible in the hands of the people, and is making some progress.