FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 38.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

WE have just received intelligence that the wife of Elder Ira J. Hankins, missionary to South Africa, died at Claremont, near Cape Town, June 8.

ELDER G. C. TENNEY accompanied Elder Olsen to Europe, being one of the company noted last week as having sailed from New York on the 12th inst.

THE church at Beaverton, Oregon, recently gave letters to eleven of their members in order that they might form a church at Dilley, but ten new members were added at Beaverton to take their places.

AT College View, Nebraska, where Union College is located, 100 persons were baptized during the past year, although there was no special revival at any time. During the year three active missionary societies were conducted by students,—English, Scandinavian, and German.

ON the 26th of June two more of our brethren, M. A. Bryan and Geo. W. Marvell, were arrested at Ford's Store, Queen Anne County, Md., for Sunday work. The warrants for both arrests were sworn out by members of other churches, who, like Saul of Tarsus before his conversion, thought they were doing God service in persecuting Christians. The case against Sister Hettie Mansfield, of the same church, who was arrested for using a sewing machine on Sunday, has been dismissed by the court, on account of the prosecuting witness failing to appear.

SISTER HOPE, who recently returned from this city to Belfast, Ireland, where her husband, Elder Francis Hope, and Elder O. O. Farnsworth are holding tent meetings, writes to her friends here as follows:

"I went twice to the tent yesterday. The Sabbath subject had been well advertised, and we were encouraged in having the tent filled both times. During my husband's sermon Elder Farnsworth went to hear another minister on the same subject. Questions were invited by this minister, so Elder F. went forward and questioned him for half an hour, and then spoke to the crowd of a thousand people,"

ELDER GEORGE I. BUTLER, who was for thirteen years president of the General Conference, and who for the last four years has been obliged to retire from active service on account of ill health, is rallying once more. The following note from him, dated at Bowling Green, Florida, appears in the Des Moines, Iowa, Bulletin:

"I have begun to preach a little once more. The Campbellites invited me to preach every Sunday in their new church in the village. I have spoken three times already. As I begin again after four years of silence, the old fire kindles in my heart. I am thinking seriously of getting me a tent, and taking mother in my family tent, and holding meetings hereabouts, within a reasonable distance so that we could go back and forth with our team. I don't know as I could stand it to preach all the time, but I shall be glad to labor once more to bring souls to the truth. I really think I shall get to work again on a small scale."