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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 25.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

WORK is progressing on our Scandinavian College at Frederikshavn, Denmark.
THE brethren at Cedar Run, Michigan, are taking steps to build a house of worship.
THE winter term of the Australasian Bible School at Melbourne was opened on the 4th inst.
ELDER JOHN F. JONES gives encouraging reports of the church work in Baltimore, Md., and Wilmington, Del.
AT Clarksburg, Sacramento County, Cal., a company of fourteen members was recently organized by Elder Wm. Ings.
THE first regular course of meetings ever held in South Carolina by our people was inaugurated by Elder Webster, assisted by Brother and Sister J. O. Johnston.
THE brethren scattered around in the vicinity of Parkersburg, W. Va., have decided to perfect a church organization.
ELDER F. J. HUTCHINS, missionary to Honduras, reports a kindly reception at Utilla, where he decided to hold a series of tent meetings.
ELDER A. O. BURRILL reports the baptism of five candidates at Willis, Mich., at the close of the recent institute held with that church.
OF the work in Jamaica Island, Elder A. J. Haysmer reports the baptism of twenty persons and the organization of a church of thirty-seven members.
THE Illinois Conference Committee have rented an eleven-room house for a permanent mission house in the South Side, Chicago. The location is 438 Sixty-second Street, Woodlawn.
AT Alden, N. Y., recently, Elder S. H. Lane delivered a lecture on temperance to a large audience in the Presbyterian Church. The pastor of the church had made special effort to have the meeting a success.
ON the 9th inst. Brother George O. Wellman and wife, accompanied by Sister Lillian White, of Hillsdale, Mich., left Battle Creek, Mich., on a mission to the island of Raiatea. They will go out on the next voyage of the Pitcairn.
A LETTER from Brother E. C. Chapman, by the last mail from Tahiti, states that Elder Read and wife had gone to Raiatea Island for a time, to assist Brother and Sister Cady in their school work. The work at Tahiti, he said, was prospering.
ELDER JOHN W. COVERT reports encouragingly of the cause in Olivet, Indiana. During the month of February fourteen new members were added to the church, and during meetings held from March 28 to April 1, seven more were added.
ELDER H. G. THURSTON held six services in connection with the quarterly meeting occasion at Newburg, N. Y. Brethren were also present from Matteowan, Cold Springs, and Poughkeepsie. Brother Thurston says "there is an awakening at Newburg."
AT the last quarterly meeting held at Syracuse, N. Y., four members were added to the church, and five other names were presented for membership after baptism. Within six months eighteen have embraced the truth through the Bible work in that city, says Elder P. Z. Kinne, in the Indicator.
A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Church has been organized in Constantinople. Of the members, six are Greeks and fourteen Armenians. Others who keep the Sabbath but have not yet been baptized swell the number of the company to thirty. The organization was effected by Elder H. P. Holser, of Basel, Switzerland.
OUR brethren in Switzerland have found that, with all the boasted freedom of that little republic, freedom of conscience has only a nominal existence for those whose consciences do not indorse the dogmas of the State church. In other words, Switzerland is a standing illustration that freedom of conscience cannot exist where the State assumes to direct in religious matters, or where the church assumes a control of the State. Our publishing house in Basel has fines standing against it for Sunday labor amounting to some 300 francs. These fines will not be paid voluntarily, and cannot consistently with truth and justice; either they will be collected by attachment, or the penalty will be enforced by the imprisonment of the manager. But in some way God will bring good for his people out of the evil.
THE American Sentinel of the 5th inst. has this item of news: "The third Monday of this month another Seventh-day Adventist will be called to stand trial for his faith, in Kent County, Maryland. A month later two men of the same faith will answer before a Georgia court for exercising their God-given right to work on the first day of the week, as required by their faith. Another case is pending in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and will be decided in a few days."