FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 24.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER D. C. HUNTER reports the organization of a church of eighteen members in Santa Cruz, Cal.

ELDER W. M. HEALEY is conducting a short series of meetings in Calistoga, Cal., and reports a good attendance.

CANVASSERS sold 150 copies of "Great Controversy" in Greenbrier County, W. Va., and nine persons are said to be keeping the Sabbath of the Lord in consequence. Brother Thomas Roberts is following up the good work.

ELDER A. E. FLOWERS and wife arrived at Trinidad on the 27th of February, after a pleasant journey from New York.

THE ministers' school, conducted under the auspices of the General Conference for twenty-four weeks, at Battle Creek, Mich., closed March 28.

ELDER E. A. CURTIS, who has been laboring during the winter in Hewitt, Bertha, and Wrightstown, Minn., reports something over twenty conversions to the faith.

ELDER D. E. LINDSEY reports the organization of a Sabbath school at Scott, Ohio, of twenty members. Also the addition of six members to the church at Vanwert.

A CHINESE school of twenty-five pupils, in charge of Sister L. C. Kent, is in successful operation in Salt Lake City. A number of them attend the weekly prayer meeting, and eight are members of the Sabbath school.

THE church in Stockton, Cal., after being obliged to hold meetings in a private house for five months, has secured the use of the house of worship of the German Reformed Society, corner Miners' Avenue and Stanislaus Street. This is a good house, in a convenient locality, and the opportunity is a source of encouragement to the energetic company.

BROTHER W. A. MILLER and wife, now of Healdsburg, Cal., have been invited by the Foreign Mission Board to engage in the work of missionary teaching in the Bay Islands, Honduras. They are desirous of obtaining fifty copies of the song book "Joyful Greetings," for use in their work. If any of our readers have spare copies of the book, and would like to donate them to the missionary work, please forward, postpaid, to Elder F. M. Wilcox, Battle Creek, Mich.

"The cause in Arkansas is still progressing," writes Elder J. M. Rees to the Review. He says that in one neighborhood there are ten Sabbath keepers who never heard a sermon from one of our ministers. In another place eight members of the Christian Church are keeping the Sabbath, and none of these have ever heard a Seventh-day Adventist sermon. At Springdale, where the persecutions under the old Sunday law attracted considerable attention a few years ago, the church now numbers 143.

The general camp meeting of California Conference will soon be at hand, commencing May 10. It is time for earnest preparation for that important occasion, but it is not essential that the main preparation be in the line of new clothes. The old clothes are more appropriate for outdoor living; but come with the spirit renewed, with a new consecration of heart. With the young especially, display in dress simply adds to the temptation to be seen amid the attractions of the cities adjacent to the camp ground.

ELDER E. E. ANDROSS writes as follows, under date of April 2: "The work is getting along real well here in Los Angeles, Cal. I have been holding Sunday-night meetings in the church for some time, with some outside interest. I now have the free use of a new tent, nicely furnished, near the center of the city, Saturday and Monday nights; and considerable interest is manifested. Last Sabbath I was privileged to baptize eight willing souls who have lately begun to obey the Lord. The largest audience that we have ever had in our church was present at the service. Our Sabbath audiences have been increasing regularly for some time. Several others will doubtless be baptized soon. The Lord is working for us, and we praise his name. The Spirit of God is attending the efforts of the Bible workers as never before. Truly we are in the 'loud cry' of the message. Let us magnify his name together."

At the missionary meeting of the Oakland church, on the 4th inst., Brother J. R. McCoy gave an interesting account of the labors of the Pitcairn missionaries in the South Sea islands. One notable fact was elicited, namely, that, without design on the part of the missionaries, they had traveled the same general route as was taken by those who first carried the gospel to that region. It seemed in the providence of God that the Third Angel's Message should follow in the wake of the first gospel message. It was also shown that the work of the present missionaries is in many respects more difficult than that of the pioneers, because of the degradation of the natives through years of contact with the ruder elements of the white race.