p. 12 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 19.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER H. A. ST. JOHN reports nine accessions to the San Francisco church within two weeks.

THE secretary of the California Sabbath School Association reports 128 schools in the Conference.

ELDER W. W. PRESCOTT, wife and child arrived in this city from the North on the 28th ult., and went on to Healdsburg on the 2d inst.

INCIDENTAL reports of the good work of the institute recently held at Atlanta, Ga., continue to reach us from different sources. It seems to have given a wonderful impetus to the work in the Southern field.

IN the Workers' Bulletin of February 27 is a statement that eight persons were baptized at Des Moines, Iowa, on the previous Sabbath, seven of whom were attendants at the canvassers' school being held in that place.

ELDER J. W. WATT reports the work in Helena, Mont., steadily growing. "About forty persons are now keeping the Sabbath, thirty-five of whom have their names on the covenant." He is now laboring in Butte City.

A LETTER to the Review from Jamaica Island notes the fact that a minister (formerly Baptist, now independent) and his flock of twenty members have made application to unite with our people. The writer, Sister A. J. Haysmer, adds that "the call for reading matter is simply astonishing."

ELDER A. J. STONE, a Swedish laborer from Chicago, has been called to Iowa, to look after the people of his nationality in that State. He is at present conducting meetings in Des Moines. A previous meeting at Village Creek, Allamakee County, resulted in nine accessions to the faith.

THE General Conference Bible School at Battle Creek, Mich., keeps growing in interest and importance. In response to demands for more teachers, Elder A. F. Ballenger was called to that work, and prevented from filling appointments in the Iowa Conference. However, it is expected that the school will shortly turn out a host of qualified field laborers.

OF the Japanese mission in Portland, Oregon, Elder S. N. Haskell writes: "Nineteen have already embraced the Sabbath, six of whom are studying for the ministry. These have received very little instruction outside of what they have found in the Scriptures, and there is no one thing that awakens in them a greater interest than to hear of the saving power of their Redeemer, and of his second coming to this earth."

IN the Oakland church, on the 3d inst., Elder M. H. Brown preached a very important discourse on the general topic of miracles and signs and wonders, showing how Satan will use such manifestations to deceive all who are not sufficiently rooted and grounded in the word to recognize the true and to detect the false. It is the "wicked and adulterous" who seek after signs. Our trust must be in the word; we must prove the miracles by the word, and not test the truth by the miracles.