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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 2.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

STEPS have been taken to erect a mission building in the city of Detroit, Mich.
On the 22d ult. fifteen persons were baptized at the Tabernacle in Battle Creek, Mich.
A STATE institute for Indiana has been appointed, to be held at Indianapolis, November 9-16.
ELDER J. F. HANSEN, who labors among the Scandinavian people of Chicago, reports the baptism of seven candidates.
IT has been decided to hold a Bible school at Kansas City, Mo., beginning January 9, 1894, and continuing twelve weeks.
THE school enterprise at Cleburne, Texas, is so far advanced that a school will be opened about January in a temporary building.
A NEW house of worship at Grandville, Mich., will be dedicated during a general meeting to be held there November 10-12.
IT is expected that Brethren Wm. Lenker and A. T. Strope will arrive at Madras, India, about the 12th inst., to commence the canvassing work.
ELDER J. H. MORRISON, of the California Conference Committee, occupied the chapel pulpit of Union College, at College View, Neb., October 21.
THE president and secretary of the Texas Sabbath School Association, Brother O. and Sister A. L. Glass, were formerly Bible workers in the California Conference.
SISTER HAVEN, who has canvassed about one-fourth of the city of Galveston, Texas, (working slowly on account of ill health), reports the sale of nearly five hundred books.
ELDER F. M. WILCOX, while en route from California to Battle Creek, Mich., stopped over at College View, Neb., and spoke in the college chapel Sabbath afternoon, the 28th ult.
AT Coshocton, Ohio, on the 15th ult., eleven persons were baptized and a church of fifteen members was organized. This result has followed the labors of Elder O. F. Guilford and Brother Albert Carey.
THE Arkansas Reporter of the 25th ult. says: "Everything is 'courage' in the field, despite the hard times. The workers that are putting in good time are doing well. The Lord is going before and opening up the way."
ELDER R. G. GARRETT reports a quite common experience in connection with his work at Utica, Daviess County, Ky. He was allowed the use of a schoolhouse until some began to obey the truth, and then the house was closed against him.
OLD friends as well as new ones will rejoice to hear that Elder G. I. Butler is once more able to take the field for the proclamation of the gospel message. He reports to the Review that he is laboring in Bowling Green, Fla., holding services six evenings in the week.
THE Texas Reporter says of the work in Parker County, conducted by Brethren J. A. Holbrook and J. L. Wood, that eleven were recently baptized, seventeen had signed the covenant, and others were interested. A later report states that ten more were awaiting baptism.
BROTHER JAMES JOHNSON, a Minnesota canvasser, writes to the Worker of that State as follows: "Many people will suffer in this country this winter. Renters are crowded to the wall; many of them have their crops taken right from the machine by mortgage, also horses and cattle." Notwithstanding this he says, "Delivering goes first rate, much better than I expected." Surely the Lord goes with his work.
ELDER H. R. JOHNSON is now acting president of Wisconsin Conference, in place of Elder R. A. Underwood, who recently resigned on account of ill health. Brother Johnson's address for Conference correspondence is 865 Fifth Street, Milwaukee, and his home address is Box 277, Neenah, Wis.
A LADY canvasser in a certain locality in Missouri writes to the Workers' Record: "Although the Methodist minister warned his flock not to take their books, I never had so little trouble to deliver." It seems that the Lord had appointed to defeat the counsel of this modern Ahithophel.
AT the recent Michigan Conference five churches were received,—one at Chippewa, with twenty-nine members; one at Leutz, with ten members; one at Benton Harbor, with sixty members; one at Albuna, with twenty-five members; and one at Kalamazoo, with twenty-four members.
ELDER O. C. GODSMARK, although not fully engaged in the work since leaving California two years ago, writes from Bedford, Mich.: "I baptized five of our Bedford Sabbath school scholars a short time ago. I have not been entirely idle during the past two years, if I have been silent." He is now so situated that he can enter the work more exclusively once more.
ELDER J. O. CORLISS and family arrived in Oakland from the East on the 30th ult. He has been taking part in the institute work begun by Elder W. A. Colcord in the church here. The latter was obliged to give way temporarily on account of a bad cold. On Sunday evening, the 5th inst., he addressed an audience of 600 people in a large public hall, on "The Dangers that Menace Our Country."
ELDER R. M. KILGORE, superintendent of General Conference District No. 2, writes to correct a statement in our "Field Notes" of the 22d ult., that Elder J. W. Collie had been elected president of the Florida Conference. He is a member of the Conference Executive Committee, and president of the Sabbath School Association; but Elder L. H. Crisler is president of the Conference. Thanks for the correction.