FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 44.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

Elders J. B. Goodrich and H. E. Rickard report a good interest in their tent meetings at Presque Isle, Me.

At Shelton, Neb., a new house of worship was dedicated August 9, by Elders W. B. White and Daniel Nettleton.

Brother George W. Howard reports that at Rangeley, Franklin County, Me., nine have recently begun keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.

The Virginia Tract Society, at its recent annual meeting, recommended that Brother Wm. Hutchinson and wife go to Richmond to labor.

Sister M. J. Bahler, who has been a frequent contributor to the columns of this paper, died in Battle Creek, Mich., on the 19th of August.

At Garden Plain, Kansas, where Brethren E. L. Fortner and T. M. Thorn have been laboring, a church of eleven members was recently organized.

At Guthrie, Oklahoma, August 7, eleven persons, five colored, were baptized in the Cottonwood River, and after this service a church of twenty-five members was organized.

Sister E. G. White makes a special appeal in behalf of the work in New Zealand, the need of a house of worship in Wellington being set forth as an urgent necessity in order to get the attention of church-going people who will not attend meetings in halls used for all purposes.

"The best yet" seems to be the verdict at all the State camp meetings this year, and our Ohio brethren are not behind in the claim for their meeting at Mt. Vernon. Eighty-two persons were baptized. The report to June 30 showed fifty-seven churches in the Ohio Conference, with 1,431 members.

Elder R. M. Kilgore, superintendent of General Conference District No. 2, was at Welsh, La., August 5 and 6, and ordained Brother H. S. Shaw to the gospel ministry.

Elder J. H. Durland gives a good report of the late camp meeting at Castana, Iowa. The attendance was not large (250 in camp), but there was great rejoicing, and fourteen were baptized.

Elders Wm. Ings and A. J. Osborne report the baptism of five persons in connection with their tent labor in Lodi, Cal. Others have taken their stand on the truths presented, and a Sabbath school of twenty-two members has been organized.

Sister Vesta J. Olsen writes concerning the recent camp meeting at Seward, Neb.: "We have had showers of blessing here. I never attended a better meeting with the children; it was truly encouraging to see how ready they were to take hold of the promises of God by faith, and in an intelligent manner too."

The London city office of the International Tract Society (formerly the London Branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Company) has been changed from No. 48 to No. 59 Paternoster Row. Correspondents are specially requested to bear this in mind. The present room is conveniently located on the ground floor.

From Elder Conradi's report in the Review we learn that the deacon of the church at Sarighiol, Russia, and three families from Charkoo have been banished to Siberia. A sister has lately visited those who are in banishment near the Persian border, and describes their condition as "miserable and pitiful." No letters can now reach our brethren there, and the latest news is that they are to be further removed, and cut off from all possible communication.

The brig Galilee, which sailed from San Francisco for Papeete, Tahiti, September 1, has on board a complete printing outfit, consisting of type, printing press, and material, for our brethren at Tahiti. Brother E. C. Chapman, a practical printer, who sailed on the Pitcairn on her last voyage, is stationed at Papeete and will take charge of the plant. Several of our tracts have already been translated into the Tahitian language, and only await the arrival of the press to be printed and sent out.

Brother Maui Pomare, the first fruit from the Maoris of New Zealand, arrived in this city on the 31st ult., on the steamer Alameda. He is one of four young men, students at a college in Napier, N. Z., who accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith a few months ago. He received his first knowledge of the truths we hold from the cook at the college, who had been an English sailor. This cook had not himself united with the Adventists, but had in some way learned much of their doctrines, and was a nominal believer. Brother Pomare went on to Battle Creek, Mich., to attend school. The Maoris are the natives of New Zealand.

Of the work in South Carolina, Elder E. W. Webster writes, under date of August 18: "The Lord is blessing the work here in a remarkable manner. He has gone out before in all directions, so that calls for meetings are now coming in from the country around us. We have our hands full to follow up the interest in the city, and are pressed for time to do that. We are years behind the providence of God in entering South Carolina, but we are now here and at the work with all our might. Besides calls to labor publicly, we have all the house-to-house work we can do, and the papers are also open to our use. These we have used, with an invitation to use them again."

A Bible school, under the auspices of the General Conference, will be opened in Battle Creek, Mich., October 12, and continue six months. The object of the school is to give persons of liberal education an opportunity for special preparation to engage in the work. If they wish to enter upon any line of health work, special facilities are offered at the Sanitarium. Calendars can be obtained from any of our educational institutions on application, and circulars of information will be forwarded from the Sanitarium in regard to that branch of the work.

The first sentence of Sister White's article in another column expresses a truth which should be engraved on the memory of every professed servant of God: "The professed church of God may be possessed of wealth, education, and knowledge of doctrine, and may say by her attitude, 'I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;' but if its members are devoid of inward holiness, they cannot be the light of the world." Yet this holiness awaits all. Jesus invites us to open the door and let him come in, let his mind be in us. His light will shine away the darkness, and will cause us to believe.