FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 13.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

AT the last quarterly meeting at Green Top, Mo., six members were added to the church.

A SABBATH school of thirty members has been organized near Downing, Wis., by Brother J. B. Scott.

THE address of Dr. M. G. Kellogg is George’s Terrace, St. Kilda Row, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

THE church at Nashville, Tenn., has increased from a dozen members to fifty-seven during the past year.

AS A result of meetings held at Oelrichs, S. Dakota, Brother L. M. Crowther reports sixteen obeying the truth.

ACCORDING to a notice in the Review, the Haskell Home for Orphans at Battle Creek, Mich., was to have been dedicated on the 25th inst.

BROTHER E. HAMPTON, formerly a canvasser in California Conference, is now laboring among the Quakers in the vicinity of Springville, Iowa.

AT meetings held in a schoolhouse near Guthrie, Ok. T., by Brother Wm. H. White, four accepted the faith, and a Sabbath school was organized.

ANOTHER remarkable baptismal service was held in the Battle Creek Tabernacle, on the 13th inst., when fifty-five were baptized by Elder H. Nicola.

ELDER J. F. HANSEN reports encouragingly of the work among the Danish-Norwegians in Chicago, three of whom united with the church on the 6th inst.

ELDER G. B. TRIPP reports many calls for laborers in the Virginia Conference. Elder Roberts had held a successful meeting at Stanley, where thirty-four were added to the church. Brother T. H. Painter was holding meetings at Battle Creek, Page County, with encouraging interest, and Brother C. A. Watkins was in the midst of a good interest at Dayton.

THE camp meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, is reported by Elder Olsen to have been a success. There were twenty-six tents, and eighty persons were camped on the ground. He arrived there November 29, while the meeting was in progress.

IN the Iowa Conference a new house of worship has been completed at Urbana, Benton County. A new house is about completed by the church at Audubon, Audubon County; and arrangements are made for the erection of still another building at West Grove, Davis County.

A NOTE from Brother H. C. Griffin, secretary of the Arkansas Tract Society, dated Springdale, January 14, notes the encouraging progress of an institute at that place, with Elder A. J. Breed in charge. He remarks that the interest is good and the instruction timely.

THE Bible Echo notes the distribution of laborers in the Australian field for the week of prayer, as follows: Elders Steed, Hare, and Hickox in New South Wales; Elder W. L. H. Baker in South Australia; Elders Starr, Rousseau, and Daniells in Victoria, and Dr. M. G. Kellogg in Tasmania.

"I have baptized eighteen since coming to this field in June. Several more are awaiting baptism. I have the use of the Disciple Church house in Star, where I am now engaged in a series of meetings with a good attendance and an increasing interest."

BROTHER R. W. ROBERSON, for some years a resident of Dallas, Texas, removed last fall to San Antonio in order to hold up the light of truth where there were no representatives of the faith. He reports to the Review that there are now twenty-one Sabbath keepers there, and regular meetings. This is the kind of work the Lord would have his people do. It is high time to be going forth to the world, carrying the light of the last message, accompanied by Christian example.

IN politics it is the work of the rather obscure ward politicians that counts at the polls. These men look after the individuals, get them interested, and get them out to cast their votes. Thus by getting individuals to vote, the ward politician enlists everyone so influenced to become practically a worker in the cause which he advocates. Brethren, don't try to cover too large a field; look after the individuals, and when you have gained their conviction, do not stop till you have enlisted their services in some way for the good cause.