FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1893

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER H. J. FARMAN reports three additions to the church at Slocumville, R. I.

ELDER J. W. BAGBY reports to the Reaper the organization of a church of nineteen members at Wallowa, Oregon.

Four persons were baptized in Washington, D. C., November 25. Elder S. J. Hersum reports a good attendance at the meetings.

IN connection with meetings held in Star of the West, Ark., by Elder W. F. Martin, six were baptized and one signed the covenant.

THE latest report from the academy at Graysville, Tenn., is that there are seventy-five students enrolled, with a good prospect of more.

THE Review has information from Albuna, Ontario, that the cases of the brethren under arrest there for laboring on Sunday (mentioned in our last week's issue) were all dismissed.

REMEMBER the special prayer season to be observed by appointment from the 23d to the 31st inst., and expect an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

AT the recent State meeting held at Nevada, Iowa, Brother H. V. Adams was ordained to the gospel ministry. Elder A. T. Jones delivered the charge, and Elder E. G. Olsen offered the prayer.

BROTHER C. A. WATKINS, who has been holding meetings at Dayton, Va., so far secured the interest of the pastor and elder of the Christian denomination that by invitation he occupies their church instead of the public hall which he had been using.

ON the 29th ult. Elder W. G. Kneeland and wife left Battle Creek, Mich., for their new field of labor in British Guiana, South America. Brother Kneeland was ordained to the gospel ministry the day previous, the officiating ministers being Elders J. H. Durland, I. D. Van Horn, and W. W. Prescott.

ELDER R. M. KILGORE, superintendent of General Conference District No. 2 (the Southern States), has been making an extended tour. He speaks encouragingly of the footholds being established in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee, and is especially anxious to secure laborers to work exclusively among the colored people.

ELDER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, superintendent of General Conference District No. 3, gives good reports of both the Illinois and Indiana State institutes, held in November, the former at Springfield and the latter at Indianapolis. At the latter it was decided that ministers should go out in companies and hold institutes with the churches.

A CARD from Elder W. S. Cruzan states that he was holding meetings in a schoolhouse near Rolyat, Bowie County, Texas, with a good interest. He says many are attending who never attended religious meetings before. He also reports many cases of deep interest. Brother W. W. Storer is engaged in colporter work in connection with the meetings.

ELDER A. J. HAYSMER and wife, who went to Jamaica Island last May, seem to be finding plenty to do, and have been well received at various points, notably by a Wesleyan minister and a Baptist minister. Brother Haysmer says, "We need families from the States to settle in places where there is an interest." He says it is a beautiful country, and those of our brethren who have the ability would be greatly blessed in helping out in this destitute field.

THE South African Conference was held in Cape Town during the last week of October. Elder O. A. Olsen, of the General Conference Committee, was present. Elder A. T. Robinson was reëlected President; Elder E. B. Miller, Vice President; Elder I. J. Hankins, Secretary, and Mrs. N. H. Druillard, Treasurer. Initiatory steps were taken in the matter of establishing a sanitarium, and a committee was appointed to select and secure a site. It was also resolved to encourage and coöperate with efforts of the General Conference to establish a mission in Mashonaland.

SOME of the inconsistencies of Sunday-law persecutions were illustrated in the recent trial of Elder McCutcheon and Professor Keck, at Gainesville, Ga. Their offense was arranging seats in a building to be used for school purposes; the charge was "disorderly conduct." The complaining witness lived half a mile away, and could neither see nor hear the work done, yet on being told that the men were at work, he was greatly "disturbed conscientiously." But when Elder McCutcheon stated in his defense that he kept the fourth commandment as a matter of conscience, he was blandly informed that "conscience is not in it at all."

THERE are now over forty adherents of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in St. Johns, N. B., and the Catholic Mirror articles on "The Christian Sabbath" which have been issued in so many different forms, are stirring up the people. So says Elder F. I. Richardson. Our issue of these articles retains the original title, "The Christian Sabbath," and may be had of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal.; 43 Bond Street, New York City; or 18 W. Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo.

A PECULIAR circumstance is related in the Union Record by Elder E. E. Franke, now laboring at Jersey City, N. J. A young Scotchman had a dream, in which he saw a city street and meeting place. Soon afterward he came to America, and to Jersey City, where he incidentally came to our meeting house, and recognized the place which he had seen in his dream. He has accepted the doctrines of our faith, and desires to return to his native land to disseminate the truth there.