p. 12 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 28.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER A. O. BURRILL reports the baptism of five candidates at Prattsville, Mich.

WITHIN a few weeks' time twelve new members have been added to the church in Stockton, Cal.

ELDER W. M. HEALEY reports six converts to the faith in Calistoga, Cal., the result of a recent short series of meetings.

APRIL 22 Elder Matthew Larsen closed a series of meetings at Urbana, Iowa, and organized a church of twelve members.

AT Winthrop, Iowa, on the 22d ult., Elder A. A. John baptized four candidates, two of whom were over seventy years of age.

AT Uncompahgre, Colo., as a result of meetings held by Elder F. L. Trubey and others, a church of twenty members was organized about a month since.

IN San Diego, Cal., April 14 and 21, twelve persons were baptized, all but one being heads of families. These are fruit of the labors of Elder G. K. Owen and wife.

ELDER J. D. PEGG reports that about 100 persons have embraced the Seventh-day Adventist faith in the Colorado field during the past year. He has himself baptized seventeen since the 1st of January.

A MONTH ago the case of one of our Tennessee brethren was to have been heard in the Supreme Court of that State on appeal. But by some means the papers pertaining to the case in the lower court are reported as lost.

IN response to an urgent call Elder J. W. Scoles recently began a short series of meetings in Toledo, Ill. He at first occupied the Baptist Church, but it proved too small to hold the audiences, and the opera house was secured.

OF the church in Detroit, Mich., Sister M. C. Kenyon reports that one year ago the membership was thirty-four; now it is sixty-five; membership of Sabbath school, 105. The mission address has been changed to 426 Trumbull Avenue.

ELDER J. P. HENDERSON, of Iowa Conference, after reporting a very successful season of work at various points, during the winter and early spring, is obliged to report himself at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, undergoing physical recuperation.

IN the vicinity of the home of Brother R. M. King, deceased, who suffered persecution and prosecution in Obion County, Tenn., for his obedience to the law of God, Elder C. L. Boyd lately baptized four persons. Brother Boyd states that he was treated very courteously by the people there, although that is the place where, a few years ago, about twenty shots were fired into the schoolhouse while Elder Covert was preaching.

FROM a letter written by Elder B. J. Cady, missionary on Raiatea Island, we take the following estimate of population of various islands of the Society group: Raiatea and Tahea, between 3,000 and 4,000; Huahine, 1,200; Borabora, between 800 and 1,000; Maupiti, about 300; Maiao, about 200.

SINCE the trial of Elder McCutchen and Professor Keck at Gainesville, Ga., for laboring on Sunday, they report quite an interest in our work on the part of many who otherwise might not have noticed it. The attorney who prosecuted them has expressed a desire to send his son to the school to learn shorthand.

AS a result of house-to-house tract work in Galesburg, Ill., two sisters have found such a demand for Bible readings that their time is fully occupied. It is evident that all who go to work humbly and faithfully, and in lines within their ability, will soon reap the reward of their labors, not only in personal blessing, but also in souls for the kingdom of heaven.

ELDER ALLEN MOON, of Washington, D. C., is authority for the following statement which we clip from the Review of the 1st inst.:—

The case against Brother Price for Sunday breaking, set for trial in the circuit court of Maryland, held at Chestertown, was dismissed on the 23d of this month [April]. The court held (Judge Wicks presiding) that a violation of the Sunday law is not an offense for which a person may be indicted by the grand jury of that State, and that the only way the circuit court can obtain jurisdiction in such cases is on an appeal from a justice court. The case of Brother Price was not tried before a justice of the peace, but was taken directly before the grand jury.

A LATE Melbourne, Australia, paper contains the following:—

At the W. C. T. U. headquarters, 140 Flinders Street, on Thursday afternoon last, Professor Kellogg [Dr. M. G. Kellogg, of California], an American food specialist, delivered a lecture on hygienic cooking, in which he laid particular stress upon the difference between natural and acquired tastes in the matter of food. He recommended his hearers to cultivate a relish for a simple, unadulterated diet, without the use of condiments or stimulants, if they desired to enjoy good health. At the close of the lecture, several samples of well cooked pastry and a dish called "mush," made of maize, were presented to the ladies present. Mrs. Starr, of New Zealand, has kindly consented to conduct the cookery classes being formed at the institution.