FIELD NOTES | AdventAI

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

FIELD NOTES.

ELDER M. G. HUFFMAN reports good progress in raising funds for the new repository building at Deering, Maine.

ELDER E. J. HIBBARD recently baptized sixteen persons at Eldred, Pa., and some half dozen more are awaiting baptism.

ON the 23d ult. Brother C. H. Richards and wife sailed from New York for Nassau, Bahama Islands, where they go to engage in the canvassing work.

A NOTE from Brother D. E. Scoles, dated Pendleton, Oregon, November 24, says, "The work here is progressing; there are now forty-one names on the covenant."

NOVEMBER 12 a church of eleven members was organized at Carbon, Iowa. At Corning, seven miles distant, the day previous, Elder C. M. Gardner baptized eight persons.

NOVEMBER 22 Elder W. A. Spicer and family sailed from New York for London, where Brother Spicer will enter upon editorial duties connected with the Present Truth, as heretofore announced.

IN Jersey City, N. J., regular Sabbath meetings are held at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Union Street. The membership at last report was forty-seven, with a Sabbath school membership of double that number.

A DETROIT paper states that three Seventh-day Adventists, Robert Sweeton and son, and Wallace Sweeton, residents of Merser, Ontario, have been arrested on a charge of working on Sunday, the specific act being the painting of a wagon tongue.

AS a result of meetings held in Urbana, Iowa, by Brethren L. F. Starr, D. H. Tanner, and C. M. Gardner, sixteen are now keeping the Sabbath and others are deeply interested. Preparations are under way for the erection of a house of worship.

ELDER W. S. HYATT reports to the Review a good work at Goldsberry, Mo., during the early part of November. He was there one week, and twenty united with the church, seventeen of whom were baptized. Amongst other services a new house of worship was dedicated.

ELDER G. T. WILSON writes from Gisborne, N. Z., November 3: "We have been here nearly three months, holding meetings with the church and for the outside. We have had two open-air meetings, at which Sister White spoke on temperance. Several hundred persons listened each time. Last Sunday we had the theater, and had an audience of 250 or more."

THE Southern Echo, a newspaper published in Southampton, England, notices at considerable length the meetings being held in that city by Elders J. S. Washburn and Francis Hope. They were delivering a course of lectures on "Christ and Antichrist: The Two Mysteries." Brother Washburn had come from Bath, and Brother Hope from Belfast, Ireland.

OF the work in Spartanburg, S. C., Elder E. W. Webster writes: "God is still blessing the work here. The dragon is getting stirred up a little, but people still inquire after the truth, and the interest is deepening with those who have taken a stand with us. One of these, a colored man, is the best educated man in the Colored Baptist Church, the minister not excepted."

AT Shady Side, Md., the opposition has shown itself in repeated attempts to destroy the tent property of our laborers. One night persons concealed near by suddenly rushed out and cut six ropes, expecting to see the tent fall. Twenty-one ropes have been cut at different times, and people going to and from the tent have been assaulted with missiles thrown from ambush. This style of controversy is instigated principally by men claiming to be leaders in the Methodist Church.

A NOTE from Elder W. A. McCutcheon states that he and Prof. C. E. Keck were arrested on Sunday, November 19, at Gainesville, Ga., on a charge of "disorderly conduct," their specific offense being the arranging of seats in a building where they designed to commence a school the next day. They were each fined $50 and costs, with the alternative of ninety days' work in the chain gang. They appealed to a higher court, which sits in January, and bail was secured for them. They were then bound over to the County Court on a charge of "sabbath breaking," which is a State offense. Following is the closing paragraph of an account of the matter published in the Atlanta Journal:—

"There is considerable excitement in Gainesville as the result of this imprisonment and fining of these people, and many who were opposed to them before are now their friends. Some say it is a clear case of religious persecution, and reminds them of the time of Roger Williams and the persecution of the Quakers and Baptists."