FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 14.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE Kansas Worker reports the baptism of twenty-four persons at Topeka by Elder M. H. Gregory.

AN institute for Bible study will be held at Chetopa, Kansas, commencing the 6th inst. and continuing till the 13th.

ELDER W. W. STEBBINS reports the organization of a church of thirteen members in the vicinity of Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

ON the 6th of January a Sabbath school was organized at Wolf Creek Schoolhouse, Cowley County, Kansas, by Brother L. Neal.

THE brethren at Tampa, Fla., were contemplating building a house of worship, when a friend of the cause proffered the free use of a comfortable hall, well furnished and lighted, and conveniently located. The brethren thanked the Lord and took courage.

A BIBLE school for canvassers and others who desire to enter some branch of the work will be opened at Ottawa, Kansas, on the 23d inst.

A GENERAL meeting is announced by the Iowa Conference Committee to be held at Pilot Mound, beginning the 7th inst. and closing the 12th.

ELDER E. M. GWIN, who visited the church at Atchison, Kansas, during the week of prayer, reports an addition of ten members, with others waiting baptism.

THE favorable progress and financial success of the Conference school at Newark, W. Va., has warranted the Conference in recommending its enlargement, and the trustees have been empowered to erect necessary buildings.

WE are glad to note in the West Virginia Monitor the statement that Brother T. E. Bowen, secretary of West Virginia Tract Society, whose ill health of late has been a source of sadness to his colaborers, is improving, and there is hope of a speedy recovery.

ELDER H. M. KENYON reports fourteen laborers in connection with the mission work in Detroit. Christian Help work is being carried on by the church, five bands of nine persons each being actively engaged, and they find plenty of work among the poor of the city.

"ARE you ready to give a reason of your faith and hope?" is the question that President S. H. Lane asks of his New York Conference, and we think it of sufficient importance to pass it along. No one knows at what moment the salvation of a soul may depend upon such readiness.

IN connection with meetings held in Butte, Mont., by Elder J. W. Watt, which closed December 30, eighteen accepted the faith, and others began keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. At Helena he reports thirty-two names on the covenant, and other interested attendants at the meetings. It was his design to return to Butte after the close of the canvassers' school now in progress at Helena.

FROM the report of Brother Martin Stuckrath, in the Iowa Bulletin, concerning his work in the southeastern part of that State, we cull the following: "The German brethren are getting stronger and stronger in the truth. The Lord is doing a work here. The Lutheran minister is very bitter, and one of his members threatens to kill me; but I am of good courage, and my trust is in the Lord."

THE following note to the Review from Elder H. P. Holser, of Basel, Switzerland, is of general interest to people who have correspondence with foreign countries:—

The new United States postal cards are larger than the size allowed in the Universal Postal Union, and hence are taxed at letter rates. Although the sender puts on two cents, we are taxed six cents more, making the total expense of such cards eight cents. Please use only the special cards of smaller size for foreign service, or if the larger cards are used, they should bear five cents postage when sent to other countries than the United States, in the Postal Union.