FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 41.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER J. B. GOODRICH and Brother H. E. Rickard pitched a tent in Georgeville, Quebec, on the 14th ult.

THE Iowa Conference has ten meeting tents in the field this season, besides three Scandinavian companies.

ELDER N. W. ALLEE reports an addition of eleven to the church at Crow Wing, Minn., seven being by baptism.

ELDER R. H. HABENICHT and Brother F. L. Moody have organized a Sabbath school of twenty-five members at Bagley, Iowa.

As a result of meetings held in Mount Pleasant, Mich., by Brother E. R. Williams, fifteen have signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God.

AT Rockwell City, Iowa, where Brethren W. B. Everhart and N. L. McClintock are holding meetings, six had begun the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord at last report.

ELDER P. J. HENDERSON reports, as a result of meetings held at Ottumwa, Iowa, that nine persons were added to the church at Fairfield, there being no organization at the former place.

THE brethren and sisters who have been sending periodicals to Brother Archie Spence, Maple Valley, Wash., for missionary purposes, are hereby notified that he has plenty for the present.

THE good news comes to us through Mrs. Emma H. Adams that Rev. Mr. Willard and wife and Miss Matthews, of the Presbyterian Mission in Alaska, have accepted of the Sabbath of the Lord, and are rejoicing in the light. May the Lord of light lead them on to the fullness of the grace of his gospel.

PROFESSOR WM. T. BLAND, formerly of Battle Creek College, has been selected for the position of principal of the new academy soon to be opened at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and Mrs. Flora C. Bland, his wife, is to be teacher of Greek and Latin. Three courses of study are announced,—Academic, Scientific, and Biblical.

CLEAN copies of our periodicals are in demand for ship missionary work at Seattle, Wash. Brother E. F. Cornell, librarian of the tract society there, expresses thankfulness for past favors, while soliciting a continuation of the same for the advancement of the good work. Please address, postpaid, E. F. Cornell, 309 Poplar Street.

ELDER C. N. MARTIN, writing from Billing, Mont., reports the baptism of seven converts, while laboring in the midst of determined opposition. The Methodist presiding elder manifests an exceedingly bitter spirit, declaring that he would rather have a den of rattlesnakes in his back yard than live in a neighborhood where there are Seventh-day Adventists.

IN Terre Haute, Ind., recently, Brother D. H. Oberholtzer spoke on the "Time of Trouble," and was requested to repeat the discourse before a labor mass meeting. Such incidents indicate that the providence of God is in advance of the work, and that there are waiting opportunities that the laborers little dream of. July 29 eleven were added to the church in that place, eight by baptism.

SISTER VESTA J. OLSEN, corresponding secretary of the International Sabbath School Association, left Oakland on the 9th inst. to attend the International Sunday School Convention which convenes at St. Louis on the 29th inst. She also expected to attend the camp meeting in Seward, Neb. She was accompanied on the journey by the wife and two children of Elder G. C. Tenney, who had just arrived from Australia, en route to Battle Creek, Mich., where they are to make their home.

ELDER J. H. DURLAND, superintendent of General Conference District No. 4, writes: "We have had extra good meetings this summer. I have now attended six camp meetings in the district, and we have baptized 432. The Lord has brought people to the meetings that knew but little about us, and they went away fully in the truth. In our inquiry meetings, in several places, I would go to persons who had come forward and ask them what they wanted, and the reply would be, 'I am a Baptist,' or 'I am a Methodist,' but I feel that I ought to keep the Sabbath.' In some instances nothing had been said on the Sabbath question. I have just attended a local camp meeting in the Black Hills (South Dakota), held at Hill City. The meeting was small, about fifty campers, but twelve of them (about one-fourth of the camp) were baptized. Some of these were hard miners, who came to the camp to see what we would do. The Spirit of the Lord worked, and they gave their hearts to him. These were the husbands of converted wives, and had known something of the theory of the truth before."

SHOULD SABBATH OBSERVANCE BE ENFORCED BY CIVIL LAW? An able negative argument delivered at the annual contest of the Philomath and Adelphie Literary Societies of Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., June 1891. 24 pp.; 3 cents.