FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 15.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE brethren at Urbana, Iowa, have about completed a new house of worship.

AT Massena, Iowa, a few weeks ago ice was cut in order to prepare a place for the baptism of candidates.

IT is reported from Oklahoma City that twelve persons have recently united with the church, whose attention was attracted to the doctrines we hold by literature placed in the distributers.

NEAR Tustin, Mich., our people have a church in the country, where Elders R. C. Horton and J. E. Evans recently held meetings, which resulted in ten starting out to serve the Lord.

"THOU therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." 2 Tim. 2:1, 2.

ELDER E. E. ANDROSS gives very encouraging reports of meetings held in various parts of Southern California, in which Elder Haskell took a leading part. Elder J. H. Morrison took part in the extended meeting at Los Angeles.

ELDER R. S. DONNELL, president of Upper Columbia Conference, gives the following report of labor in that Conference from June 1 to December 31, 1893: Baptisms, 96; added to the churches, 144; signed covenant in new fields, 44.

A NOTE from Prof. E. C. Keck in the Review of January 30 states that the grand jury of Gainesville, Ga., had found bills against himself and Elder W. A. McCutcheon for violation of the Sunday law of the State, and that their cases would come up in the city court the third Monday in this month.

ELDER WM. COVERT, president of Vermont Conference, writes, under date of January 26, that he was visiting his family in Indianapolis, but spending part of his time among the churches in that field. He expected to return to his Vermont charge about the 10th inst. His address is 190 N. Winooski Avenue, Burlington, Vt.

SISTER ALMIRA RUOFF, writing of the work in South Africa, says: "The school year at Claremont Union College has been a prosperous one, and the students have made good progress, not only in the class work but in the 'Home' domestic work as well. Considering the fact that white children in Africa are not raised to do housework, it is remarkable how proficient they have grown in household duties in one short year."

BROTHER J. W. KELCHNER, formerly a laborer in California Conference, now in Georgia, writes of the institute held at Atlanta: "I was not a little surprised to find gathered here over a hundred workers from different parts of the Southern field."

SISTER M. A. HASKELL, wife of Elder S. N. Haskell, died at Napa, Cal., January 29, aged 81 years. She had been an invalid during sixty years of her life, and twelve years confined to her bed. She embraced the doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists forty years ago, and died in the blessed hope.

A SABBATH school of twenty-six members was recently organized at Lakeside, Cal., by Brother BAXTER HOWE. He reports a combined effort of three ministers—Methodist, Christian, and United Brethren—to break down the Bible doctrine of the Sabbath, and notes that when they got rid of the Sabbath, they had neither Christ nor the Bible left. Such a result would be but a natural consequence.