FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 40.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE address of Elder B. J. Cady is Ieturoa, Raiatea, Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean.

IT has been decided by the New Zealand Conference to hold a camp meeting at Auckland in November.

AT Lead Hill, Ark., eight have accepted the faith through the labors of Brethren W. F. Martin and Thos. I. Roffe.

FROM the Bible Echo we learn that Sister E. G. White is at Wellington, N. Z., engaged in writing on her forthcoming "Life of Christ."

A NEW meeting house has been erected at Kellyville, New South Wales, Australia, under the supervision of Elders David Steed and Robert Hare.

ELDER CLARENCE SANTEE reports twelve accessions to the faith at Mountain Grove, Mo., nearly all of whom were formerly Quakers, one a minister.

WITH reference to meetings being held at Bonne Terre, Mo., Elder J. B. Beckner says his forty-foot tent is not nearly large enough to seat the people who attend.

A CHURCH of sixteen members was organized at Green Top, Mo., July 14, by Elder W. S. Hyatt. Since that time a considerable addition has been made through the labors of Brother Geo. M. Ellis.

UNDER the labors of Brother Swin Swinson at Antigo, Wis., ten have accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith.

ELDER E. J. VAN HORN states that on the 22d ult. twelve were added to the church at Cleveland, Ohio, six by baptism.

TENT meetings are being held at Mankato, Minn., with services in both English and German, by Elders J. S. Shrock and J. H. Behrens.

THE brethren who are sending papers to F. A. Hopkins, 529 Wall Street, Los Angeles, Cal., will please discontinue them for the present.

BRETHREN F. H. WESTPHAL and Wm. Schafer are engaged in colporter work among the Germans at Freeport, Ill., and they say that reading matter is eagerly received.

THE South Dakota Worker reports an unusual interest in the Sabbath school at Vilas. It had about outgrown the meeting hall. One young man had come eighteen miles on foot, and others came twelve miles.

A CHURCH has been organized at Ellicottville, N. Y., the membership being composed of brethren residing at various points in the vicinity. At the organization there were eighteen members, but it was expected that as many more would soon be added. A new meeting house has been erected.

AMONG the "deeply interested" attendants on tent meetings held at Pine City, Minn., by Elder W. B. Hill and others, are an Indian and his wife. It is time the red man's attention was called to the law of God. Many people have told him that he is a sinner, but with few exceptions he has not been given an intelligent idea of what sin is,—that it is "the transgression of the law" of God.

THE Bible Echo of July 1 announces the following faculty for the present term of the Australasian Bible School: L. J. Rousseau, principal, history, and natural sciences; Geo. B. Starr, biblical history and ethics; John Bell, Jr., mathematics; Eliza J. Burnham, higher English; Mrs. L. J. Rousseau, assistant in English language; May Israel, phonography and typewriting; Mrs. G. B. Starr, matron; John S. Reekie, steward.

ELDER R. G. GARRETT reports a novel experience in Sutherland, Ky. The pastor and trustees of the Methodist Church granted him the use of the meeting house when there was no regular appointment. But some of the members began questioning the authority for Sunday keeping and demanded of the pastor Scripture proof for the alleged change of the Sabbath. This was too much for the pastor, and he objected to the further use of the house by Brother Garrett.