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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 21.

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FIELD NOTES.

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SEVERAL accessions to the faith are reported at Syracuse, N. Y., as a result of Bible work.
A NEW meeting house was dedicated at South Russell, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., on the 18th inst.
PROF. W. W. PRESCOTT, educational secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, preached in the Oakland church Sunday evening, the 18th inst.
BROTHER A. R. HENRY, manager of the Review and Herald Publishing House, at Battle Creek, Mich., arrived in Oakland on the 15th inst., and remained until the 19th.
THE Spring Conference of the General Conference Committee, Foreign Mission Board, and representatives of other general interests, will convene in Battle Creek, Mich., on the 27th inst.
UNDER date of the 8th inst., Elder C. N. Martin writes from Miles City, Mont.: “The work is onward here. A few days ago I baptized three more adults, who were added to the church.”
DR. J. H. KELLOGG and wife took the evening train from this city to Portland, Oregon, on the 19th inst. He will hold an institute there in the interest of medical missionary and Christian help work.
ELDER A. J. OSBORNE reports the baptism of five persons at Tulare, Cal., and four at Lakeside. At the latter place a Sabbath school of thirty members had been organized by Brother Baxter Howe.
BROTHER E. R. PALMER and wife, of Essex Junction, Vt., are about to sail for Chile, South America, to engage in the canvassing work. He has been holding a canvassers’ institute at Providence, R. I.
THE cause at Santa Cruz, Cal., is represented as having an encouraging outlook. Brother T. D. Wallar, missionary, reports fifteen adults ready to unite with the church as soon as an organization can be effected.
ELDER I. H. EVANS, president of Michigan Conference, gives encouraging reports of the mission work in Detroit. There are fourteen Bible workers in that city, and the chapel is hardly large enough to accommodate the people.
OF the prospects of the cause in Minnesota, Elder N. W. Allee, president, says, “Three times the number of our present force of laborers would scarcely supply the places whence the soul-stirring pleadings are coming for help.”
ON Sunday evening, March 4, the new meeting house at Jersey City, N. J., was dedicated. Elder I. D. Van Horn preached the sermon. A district conference was in session at the time, and several leading ministers of the district were present. The audience numbered about 450.
SISTER LOTTIE MULLIN, Cottage Grove, San Jose, Cal., repeats her request for primary school books, toys, and seeds, to be sent to our missionaries at Raiatea Island. The matter of the books is especially urgent, and no doubt there are many second hand ones amongst our people that might as well be in use.
ELDER I. SANBORN recently had a peculiar experience in Viroqua, Wis. He had secured the Christian Church for a series of meetings. In a short time, however, he was suddenly notified by the trustees that the meetings must cease, because they did not like it. He asked if he had preached anything but the plain word of God, and they replied, “Well, no; but we do not like it.”
ELDER C. L. BOYD, president of Tennessee Conference, says that his charge never has been in so prosperous and promising a condition as at the present time. The ministers and colporters are unable to fill half the openings of the providence of God.
OUR humble workers in Bellefonte, Pa., not long ago were the innocent cause of a newspaper controversy. One paper went so far as to incite the boycott and mob violence against the truth and its representatives, while the other essayed a severe reprimand of its contemporary.
ON the 19th inst. Elder O. A. Olsen, Prof. W. W. Prescott, and Brother A. R. Henry left this city for Battle Creek, Mich. They had expected to meet our brethren who are coming on the missionary ship Pitcairn before going East, but the vessel did not arrive as soon as expected.
ELDER O. A. OLSEN arrived in San Francisco from Australia on the 15th inst. He preached in Oakland church the following Sabbath morning, and in the afternoon gave an interesting account of his trip around the world, and the condition of the work in the various fields.