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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 25, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 46.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE church at Kennard, Ind., is building a new house of worship.
THE South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy was opened for the fall term on the 20th inst.
ELDER G. C. TENNEY has returned from Europe, and preached in Battle Creek, Mich., on the 9th inst.
ELDER N. W. KAUBLE reports the recent addition of sixteen members to the church at Ash Grove, South Dakota.
"AN excellent camp meeting," is what Sister Vesta J. Olsen says of the meeting recently held at Herington, Kansas.
LULU WHITE, of Spartansburg, Pa., solicits copies of the Signs and Review for missionary work. Please send postpaid to her address.
IN connection with the tent work at Rockwell City, Iowa, conducted by Brethren W. B. Everhart and N. L. McClintock, eight persons have been baptized.
AN excellent interest on the part of the public in tent meetings at Clay City, Ind., is reported by Brethren M. M. Kinney and R. M. Harrison. A local paper publishes all the leading discourses.
INDIANA CONFERENCE has seven tents in the field, at present located as follows: Anderson, Marion, Clark's Hill, Clay City, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and one in Brown County, the exact point not being stated.
ABOUT 240 campers composed the local camp meeting at Traverse City, in the northern part of Michigan, August 21-28, which was larger than was expected owing to the prevailing hard times.
ELDER N. C. MCCLURE left Oakland on the 13th inst. for Santa Ana, Orange County, this State, to attend the local camp meeting now in session there. The editor of the Signs and Elder F. M. Wilcox are also in attendance.
AT the recent annual session of the Ohio Tract Society the following officers were elected: President, G. A. Irwin; Vice President, H. M. Mitchell; Secretary and Treasurer, E. A. Merriam; Corresponding Secretary, Estella Houser.
BROTHER C. N. MARTIN writes from Mills City, Montana, where he is holding tent meetings, that twelve adults have taken their stand on the Lord's side, and others are expected to join them. The prospect is good for a strong company in that place, in spite of considerable opposition.
BROTHER S. B. HORTON began a second series of tent meetings at Church Hill, Md., on the evening of the 3d inst. A local minister attempted to deprive him of the lot on which the tent was pitched, but failed. His last report stated that eight persons were waiting an opportunity to be baptized.
FROM the Indicator we learn that the local camp meeting at Potsdam, N. Y., was a decided success, notwithstanding the weather was unfavorable nearly all the time for outside attendance. There were eight baptized, and the brethren in attendance were greatly encouraged. The camp meeting at North Creek is also reported to have been a highly profitable occasion.
ELDER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH gives an encouraging report of the camp meeting at Streator, Ill. In addition to the Illinois laborers, Elders E. G. Olsen, W. W. Prescott, E. W. Farnsworth, and A. F. Ballenger were present. Twenty-one persons were baptized in the Vermillion River by Elder J. W. Scoles. Tent work is now being conducted at West Chicago, in Danish; at Freeport, in German; and at Rockford, in English. There are 28 churches in the Illinois Conference, with 1,161 members. The Sabbath schools number 52, with a membership of 1,286.
TENT meetings in Waynesburg, Pa., have created considerable interest and no little opposition. The fact that a score or so have admitted the Sabbath truths presented aroused some earnest church people to such a state of alarm that they ought to have the tent company driven out by the authorities. This of course was a tacit admission that they could not meet the Bible arguments presented.
THE Seventh-day Adventist Church of Washington, D. C., was formally dedicated September 3, Elder H. E. Robinson, president of Atlantic Conference, being present on the occasion. Elder J. O. Corliss is pastor of the church, and he reports to the Union Record that "the prospect for the growth and prosperity of the work in Washington is bright, and the church thanks God and takes courage."
ELDER FRANCIS HOPE, writing to friends in this city, from Belfast, Ireland, relates a somewhat peculiar circumstance. He and Elder O. O. Farnsworth being engaged in tent work there met with considerable opposition. At last two different denominations pitched tents in the immediate vicinity, with the intention of drawing off the attendance at the Adventist tent. But a windstorm blew down both the opposition tents and damaged them to such an extent that they were unfit for further use. The tent in which Brethren Farnsworth and Hope were proclaiming the word of God was left standing.
FROM the report of Elder A. J. Breed in the Review we learn that the recent camp meeting at Dallas, Texas, was a decided success, there being about 800 located on the camp ground. Besides Elder Breed, Elder R. M. Kilgore, also of the General Conference Committee, and Elder A. T. Jones, were present. The Texas brethren are moving in the matter of a school, to be located at Cleburne, where they have purchased 800 acres of land. Of this tract 200 acres will be reserved for a school farm and the remainder sold in subdivisions to such of the brethren as desire to locate near the school. Elder W. S. Greer was reëlected president of the Conference and tract society.