FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1893

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER A. J. READ reports to the Review the arrival of the printing outfit at Papeete, Tahiti.

A growing interest in our work is reported at Albuna, Ontario, and a corresponding bitterness on the part of opponents.

ELDER GEORGE B. WHEELER has been located with the church in Boston for the winter. The place of meeting is 1371 Washington Street.

AT Niles City, Mont., Elder C. N. Martin reports the organization of a Sabbath school of twenty-five members. The use of the Baptist Church has been secured for the winter.

ON the 17th inst. Elders J. O. Corliss and W. A. Colcord and Brother N. L. Lawrence, all accompanied by their families, left San Francisco for Australia, on the steamer Monowai.

THE way is now clear for Seventh-day Adventists to hold suitable buildings for their work in Hamburg, having been formally acknowledged by the authorities as a religious denomination.

THE General Conference Bible School at Battle Creek, Mich., now numbers 425. This school has no connection with the college; it is designed for those who desire a short special Bible course.

BROTHER E. O. PARKER, a canvasser in Newfoundland, makes an appeal for missionaries to labor in that field. He says that “sickness and suffering are on every hand,” and that “their very look seems to appeal for help.” Many cannot read, yet are hungry for the truth.

A DISTRICT Conference of General Conference District No. 4 will be held at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, December 12–18. The district comprises the States of Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska. The council will consist of the Conference Committees, presidents and secretaries of tract societies and Sabbath school associations, and the State agents.

THE following encouraging note is from Elder A. J. Breed, of the General Conference Committee: “As I look back over the work of the past season, I can see how God has in a special manner let his blessing attend the efforts put forth to build up the work among the people. I never attended meetings where the deep movings of God’s Spirit were manifest more than in the camp meetings held in the whole district [No. 5]. There was no special effort to get the people to move and walk in the light, but as the truth has been presented, it is that which has moved them. Many who have had no connection with us as a people have become interested, and have taken hold of the truth. Many times they say, ‘My interest was awakened by reading the Signs of the Times, and now I am ready to take hold of the truth as taught in that paper.’”

OF the work in Virginia Elder G. B. Tripp says, “Earnest calls for help are coming in from all parts.” The church membership of the whole State is much less than that of some of our larger churches, yet there is a population of over 1,000,000 white and about two-thirds as many colored people.

A NOTE to the editor from Brother E. C. Chapman, missionary at Papeete, Tahiti, says: “We are rejoiced to learn that a press is on the way to this place, and are busy preparing manuscript, so that no time will be lost when it does come. The demand is not only for religious literature, but for some of the schoolbooks in Tahitian, which are now a scarce article. As the school interest is becoming a very important branch of our missionary work, we will probably have to supply the need for books as best we can. Elder Cady is almost snowed under with schoolchildren, few of whom can read their own language. Probably some of the brethren from here will go down to Raiatea to assist him what they can.”