FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 12.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE report of New York canvassers for the week ending December 22 gives the value of books delivered at $581.75.

BROTHER FRANK LAMB, in reporting the week of prayer at Salt Lake City, mentions the baptism of four persons.

MEETINGS held in the Faith Mission, at Middletown, N. Y., by Brother H. G. Thurston, have called out seven persons to take their stand for the truth.

BROTHER M. M. KENNEY writes from Patricksburg, Ind., that during the week of prayer arrangements were made for building a house of worship.

BROTHER GEO. A. KING, one of our Atlantic Conference canvassers, has gone to Jamaica Island for the benefit of his health, and reports good success in his canvassing work.

FROM Oklahoma City, Ok. Ter., Sister M. L. Brock reports "glorious meetings all through the week of prayer." Eight had united with the church and others were deeply interested.

ELDER O. C. GODSMARK writes, under date of January 3: "The matter of holding institutes among the churches in Michigan this winter is meeting with most excellent success, and we are having much of the blessing of the Lord in our work."

THE Kansas Worker tells of the organization of a Sabbath school of thirteen members at Lebanon, in that State, but omits the name of the laborer who gathered up the material. If, however, the work was the Lord's, he will take care of the name.

ELDER E. E. FRANKE writes to the Union Record from Jersey City, N. J., that work had been commenced on the new church building in that place. Elder A. T. Jones was announced to preach in their meeting hall on the evenings of the 8th and 9th insts.

MEETINGS at Horton, Kansas, conducted by Elder H. W. Woodruff, were closed a few weeks ago, leaving ten keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, and several others investigating the subject. It was necessary to cut the ice in order to provide a place of baptism.

AT the last quarterly meeting for the celebration of the ordinances at Battle Creek, the Review says 142 persons were baptized. The number in attendance was much larger than on any former occasion. With reference to the like occasion in this city, we also can give testimony to a marked increase in attendance.

REGARDING the proposed missionary expedition to Mashonaland, Africa, Elder F. M. Wilcox, secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, says: "The first of March is the time set to start from Cape Town. At that time Elder A. T. Robinson and Brother P. D. Wessels are to start for Mashonaland, and are willing to precede the company from America by a few days, find for them a suitable location, and assist them in settlement. Thus there is no time to lose. Decisions must be made at once by all who expect to go to this field. A company is now forming."

ELDER JOHN F. JONES says of the week of prayer in Baltimore that to the church it was "a feast of fat things." While times are hard, the annual offerings were larger than ever before. He adds that this "was not because there was more money amongst us, but the Spirit of the Lord is moving upon hearts, and they are warming up to the work."

AT Beardsley, Kansas, Brother Morey received notice signed by two trustees to close up his meetings in the public schoolhouse. The third trustee had not been consulted in the matter, for the reason that he and his wife had accepted the truths preached by Brother Morey and had begun keeping the Sabbath. A Sabbath school of fifteen members was organized.

IN England Elders J. S. Washburn and Francis Hope are holding up the banner of truth at Southampton, where the Seventh-day Adventist faith was first introduced by Elder Wm. Ings and others in 1878. In Bath, where Elders Washburn and Hope have previously labored, Elder C. H. Keslake and Bible workers continue the good work. There are now about seventy-five Sabbath keepers in that city.

OUR brethren in the publishing house at Basel, Switzerland, were notified by the authorities that they must cease Sunday labor, in obedience to the civil law forbidding secular work on that day. Consequently, they were expecting trouble. But it was stated that the Sunday law was laid on the table by the officials for the last three weeks of December, on account of the extra amount of work. This is another illustration of Sunday-law absurdity. What has been done since December we have not yet learned.

BROTHER E. S. POPOFF, who went from New York to his native land, Bulgaria, last fall to do missionary work, writes an interesting letter to the Indicator, from which we take the following: "Many things in Bulgaria are in a lamentable condition. The schoolhouses are, most of them, old and tumbledown, and the salaries of the teachers are, part of them at least, not paid. In small villages there are more functionaries than villagers. I do not know where the government gets money enough to pay expenses. Drunkenness is carried on to an alarming extent, and the priests are just as drunken as the laymen, and just as ignorant. It is a very healthful climate, but the inhabitants are most all sickly from ague or other diseases, on account of drunkenness."