FIELD NOTES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 43.

FIELD NOTES.

AUGUST 7 four persons were baptized in the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky, by Elder S. Osborn.

THROUGH the labors of Brother J. B. Stow at Collins Centre, N. Y., eighteen have decided to obey the commandments of God.

ANY Seventh-day Adventist literature sent to Mrs. S. C. Botsford, Box 22, Sunderland, Vermont, postpaid, will be used in missionary work.

ANY of our denominational literature sent postpaid to Miss Lottie Keslar, Castroville, Monterey County, Cal., will be used in missionary work.

ELDER N. W. ALLEE, president of Minnesota Conference, reports a recent meeting of two days at Alexandria, when eight were baptized and united with the church.

BROTHER M. F. BROWN, Glenburn, Cal., desires copies of the Signs, Review, and American Sentinel for missionary work. Please send postpaid to his address as above.

GENERAL meetings have been appointed in Oregon as follows: At Eugene, September 13–18; at Coquille, September 20–25; at Grant’s Pass, September 28 to October 3.

ELDER W. J. STONE has located at Helena, Mont., where he is conducting tent work in connection with Elder Watt. The prospect is said to be good for a substantial church in that city.

ELDERS R. S. WEBBER and F. I. Richardson are conducting tent services at St. Johns, New Brunswick. Their last report was that six had yielded obedience to the truth, and there was a good interest on the part of others.

IN connection with tent labor at Lookout, Va., seventeen are reported to have accepted the truths presented. Elder F. M. Roberts, president of the Conference, also reports five additions to the church at Marksville and one at New Market.

THE College View (Neb.) Enterprise of August 25 has this item: “Professor Droll and wife and Miss De Graw left Sunday for Walla Walla, Wash. They occupy a place on the faculty of Walla Walla College. Professor Droll will occupy the chair of sciences, Mrs. Droll, Greek and Latin, and Miss De Graw, history.”

AT the recent Indiana State camp meeting, recently held at North Indianapolis, there were 125 tents on the ground. Eighty persons were baptized. The Conference annual session was held on the camp ground. Four new churches were added to the Conference, with an aggregate membership of sixty-seven. Conference officers were reëlected, as follows: President, F. D. Starr; Secretary, W. A. Young; Treasurer, Wm. Hill.

REPORTS from the local camp meeting at Castana, Iowa, state that there were marked evidences of the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. There were about 250 campers, and a good interest was manifested by the people living in the vicinity of the meeting. Fourteen were baptized. Elders J. H. Durland and E. G. Olsen did most of the preaching.

ELDER W. B. HILL reports a bitter opposition to the truth at Pine City, Minn. The enemy went so far as to pull down the meeting tent, but was restrained from doing further damage. Other citizens turned out the next morning and assisted in adjusting the tent. The last report mentioned that they had a Sabbath school of twenty-nine members and the interest was increasing.

WORD comes from Sydney, Australia, that our workers, Brother A. S. Hickox and Sister Anna L. Ingels, find plenty to do, and more laborers are needed. And this is the cry which goes up from all parts of the great field. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few." The question which the Lord asks of his people is, "Who then offereth willingly to consecrate himself this day unto the Lord?"

OPPOSITION to the truth exposes some very odd religious vagaries on the part of people who ought to know better—and often do. Elder M. G. Huffman tells of some Danish ministers at Falmouth, Me., who, in order to prejudice their flocks against the commandments of God, tell them that the Old Testament is not intended for the common people to read, and that Jesus Christ died a Jew but was raised a Christian.

A PRIVATE letter from one of our workers in Nashville, Tenn., states that the tent meetings there are progressing encouragingly. Another significant item is that on a recent Sunday about 1,000 people went out to an adjacent park to witness a tight-rope performance. There was no complaint made, nor effort on the part of the officers of the law to enforce the Sunday law, although Nashville is the capital of the State in which Seventh-day Adventists are imprisoned for doing quiet farm work on Sunday.

THE Nebraska State Journal publishes a dispatch from Thedford, Neb., dated August 16, stating that a camping outfit and a canvassing outfit had been found in that vicinity, and the much decomposed body of a man some distance from the camp. A cart was at the camp, but the horse was gone. The description of the outfit and accompanying circumstances indicate that one of our canvassers named Wm. W. Dean has been murdered and robbed. A noted culprit, already in prison for another crime, had in possession when arrested a horse which has been identified as the one driven by the murdered man.