FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 50.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

SINCE September 1 sixty-one members have been added to the church at Battle Creek, Mich.

MRS. ELO BOUTWELL, Spartansburg, Crawford County, Pa., desires back numbers of our periodicals for missionary work.

ELDER D. T. BOURDEAU reports the baptism of eight persons who united with the church at Midway, Washington County, Pa.

SISTER LOTTIE KESLAR, of Castroville, Cal., expresses many thanks for the papers which have been so kindly sent her for missionary work.

THE secretary of the Colorado Tract Society desires us to give notice that the depository and office of the society have been removed to 1112 South Eleventh Street, Denver, Colo.

ELDER CLARENCE SANTEE reports the organization of a new church of thirty-three members at North Springfield, Mo. He was joined in labor by Brethren P. E. Ferrin and T. A. Hoover.

AT the recent State camp meeting at Herington, Kansas, there were over 1,000 persons encamped, 300 of whom were Germans. The number baptized was 105. Five new churches were added to the Conference.

THE young people connected with our churches in the North Fitzroy and Prahran suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, are organized into four missionary societies, which include the entire city and vicinity in fields of labor.

THE late Missouri camp meeting, held at Sedalia, was composed of over 100 tents and about 600 campers. Sixty-two were baptized. Seven new churches, with an aggregate membership of 163, were admitted to the Conference.

THE latest word from Elder O. A. Olsen was sent from London, September 18. He then expected to sail for Cape Town, South Africa, on the 22d, where he would remain till October 4, and then sail for Australia and New Zealand.

ELDER L. JOHNSON, writing to the Review from Hadsell, Nordland, Norway, September 7, says: "The canvassers have good success all over the field in taking orders for books, and the Lord gives us new tokens of his mercy and love every day."

BROTHER G. F. WATSON reports to the Workers' Bulletin that nine new members were added to the church at West Union, Iowa, as a result of a series of meetings. Others are keeping the Sabbath of the Lord who have not yet united with the church.

THE Foreign Mission Board has decided to have Elder J. O. Corliss and W. A. Colcord go to Australia and New Zealand. They will sail from San Francisco early in November, and be accompanied by their families. Elder Corliss accompanied the pioneer band that opened up the work in that field in 1885, and returned to America in the spring of 1887.

ELDER S. N. HASKELL arrived at his home in Napa, Cal., on the 5th inst., after an absence of about four months, during which time he made a tour of the various European centers of our work. He preached two sermons at College View, Neb., on Sabbath, the 30th ult. The morning discourse was published in full in the Enterprise, of that city.

OUR work in Florida has been organized into a State Conference. It comprises six churches, 139 members, three ordained and two licensed ministers, four licensed missionaries, and two new tents for field work. Officers were elected as follows: President, J. W. Collie; Vice President, L. H. Crisler; Secretary and Treasurer, Charles Garvin. Headquarters of the Conference for the present is established at Orlando. A tract society was also organized, with Alex. Mitchell as secretary and treasurer, and C. P. Whitford as corresponding secretary.

IN the San Francisco Chronicle of the 15th inst. there appeared an article on "The Female Divines of this Coast," from which we cull the following paragraph:—

The oldest and most experienced feminine preacher on this coast is Mrs. Ellen G. White, of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. Her home is in Healdsburg, but she has been absent for more than a year engaged in mission work in Australia and New Zealand. She is regarded by her sect as an inspired seeress and prophetess. She has frequent visions, and receives, as she claims, revelations and instructions, which she commits to writing. As a preacher

Mrs. White exhibits remarkable power. Her language, though always simple, is forcible, and her illustrations are apt. Her strength of voice and clearness of articulation are such that she can be distinctly heard by the largest audiences, and in the open air she has frequently addressed congregations numbering many thousands.