p. 12 | FIELD NOTES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 49.

FIELD NOTES.

AT Battle Creek, Mich., September 18, twelve candidates were baptized, whose ages ranged from 8 to 82 years.

IN connection with the recent camp meeting held at Little Valley, Cataraugus County, N. Y., twenty persons were baptized. There were over two hundred brothers and sisters in attendance.

ACCORDING to report of Elder W. A. McCutchen, work on the new church building at Gainesville, Ga., is progressing, and additions are being made to the membership from time to time.

ELDER J. B. GOODRICH reports the baptism of three converts at Boynton, P. Q., and the addition of two others to the faith. He also reports a profitable union meeting of brethren from various localities accessible to Boynton.

ELDER VICTOR THOMPSON reports twenty-three accessions during the summer to the church at Indianapolis, which now has 118 members. The work there has been conducted by Elders Thompson and A. W. Bartlett.

A NATIVE Japanese Presbyterian missionary and evangelist, having come to San Francisco to attend the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, fell in with our Japanese school and has accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith. He is now being published in the Japanese newspapers as an apostate.

THE largest camp meeting ever held by our people was the one recently conducted at Lansing, the capital of Michigan. There were between 600 and 700 tents, and beside these many rooms in the vicinity of the camp were occupied by regular attendants. The regular attendance was estimated at considerably over 4,000.

THE church at Bonacca, Bay Islands, Honduras, has now a membership of twenty-seven, and a comfortable house of worship. It stood the ravages of a severe storm, which blew down some large buildings and otherwise damaged many more. It is said that some of the people there are blaming the Adventists for being the cause of the storm.

THE State camp meeting held at Seward, Neb., was one of great interest and profit. There were forty-one candidates baptized, but this by no means indicates the extent of the good work. The report in the Review says: "An evangelist and his family camped on the ground. On Thursday he drove home, thirty miles, intending not to return; but Friday afternoon found him back again. He said he had tried in vain to arouse his own people, and was glad to be where there was some spirituality."

A SUCCESSFUL tent work has been conducted at Pendleton, Oregon, by Elder R. S. Donnell and Brethren D. E. Scoles and C. L. Ford. Their effort so far has resulted in twenty-nine accessions to the faith. The ministers of other churches had hoped that when cold weather closed the tent work, the influence could be overcome. But our brethren secured a building in order to permanently establish the work, and this aroused the opposition to such a pitch that it could no longer be restrained. So the work of publicly denouncing the truth was about to commence at date of last report.