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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 23.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE Atlantic Conference has decided to put eight tents in the field the present season.
CANVASSERS' institutes are being held at Jamaica, Vt., and at South Lancaster, Mass.
A CANVASSERS' institute was inaugurated at Healdsburg, Cal., on the 1st inst., and is to continue until May 1.
THREE adult sisters were baptized at Stockton, last week, by Brother W. G. Buckner, the local elder of the church.
ON the evening of March 18 three persons were baptized in the church at Jersey City, N. J., by Elder E. E. Franke.
SIX have been added to the Seventh-day Adventist faith through the labors of Brother L. F. Trubey at Riverside, Colo.
DURING the past winter sixteen members have been added to the church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, under the labors of Elder Graf.
BROTHER T. E. BOWEN, of West Virginia Conference, who was some time ago compelled to lay aside his duties as secretary on account of severe illness, is reported to be regaining his health. His many friends and colaborers will rejoice to hear of his prospective recovery.
ELDER E. G. OLSEN, president of the Iowa Conference, recently spent a short time in Chicago in the interest of the Scandinavian work.
THROUGH the labors of Elder H. G. Thurston and wife, at Middletown, N. Y., twelve have been added to our numbers, and others are investigating.
A REPORT from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Review says that a Seventh-day Adventist Church of thirty-seven members was organized there March 21.
FIVE canvassers in Glasgow, Scotland, report good success in selling the Present Truth, published in London. They have a Sabbath school of twelve members.
ELDER M. M. KENNY reports "an extra good interest" at Elnora, Ind., where he has been laboring in connection with Brother J. M. Ellis. Several ministers have attended all their meetings, and one of them has decided to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.
ELDER E. W. WHITNEY, recently from Colorado, preached in the Oakland church on the 31st inst., from Prov. 18: 10: "The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." Elder E. H. Gates, who had arrived two days previously, sat in the pulpit. He was announced to preach the following Sabbath.
WE learn from the Des Moines, Iowa, Bulletin that at the close of a general meeting of Seventh-day Adventists at Ruthven there was "quite a stir" among some of the denominations. The Lutherans held a week's protracted meeting, followed by another week's effort on the part of the Catholics, when the Methodists hired an evangelist and started in for a four weeks' siege.
IN the published reports of charity work in this city for three months, ending March 28, we note the following: "The Christian Help Band of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has made 688 visits to the poor, and have distributed 947 garments, 25 pairs of shoes, 130 baskets of cooked provisions, and a large quantity of potatoes, flour, rice, crackers, and meal, as well as many little delicacies, to 100 sick persons."
A REPORT has been kindly sent us of the dedication of a new church building at South Russell, N. Y., Elders S. H. Lane, A. E. Place, S. M. Cobb, C. O. Taylor, and H. H. Wilcox being present. The church has been built in a country place, under, to a great extent, unfavorable circumstances; but the brethren have taken hold with a will, and the friends outside have also materially assisted in the work, so that at the time of the dedication there was a very small debt, which was guaranteed by responsible parties. All were encouraged; and it is always a cause for encouragement when a church can be dedicated which is paid for, or as good as paid for. We hope our brethren there, and in other places as well, will not let the small indebtedness hang over their churches. The very best time to pay for a church is before it is built, especially before it is dedicated. New York State has built several churches during the past year.