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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 29.

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FIELD NOTES.

ELDER A. O. BURRILL reports five additions to the church at Coldwater, Mich.
TENT meetings are now in progress at Tampa, Fla., conducted by Elder J. W. Collie, and a good interest is reported.
ONE of our canvassers in Kansas recently came across a Baptist minister who said he would "take pleasure in causing the arrest of Seventh-day Adventists."
Of the work in the vicinity of Knoxville, Tenn., Brother C. E. Sturtevant says, "It would be a great help if a good medical missionary could labor in this city." He also reports several persons awaiting opportunity for baptism.
ELDER J. F. HANSEN, who labors among the Scandinavians in Chicago, baptized six converts on the 28th ult., making eighteen during thirteen months. Some others have accepted the Sabbath of the Lord who have not yet been baptized.
ELDER GEORGE I. BUTLER is now engaged in tent work at Asheville, N. C. Of the place he says it is said to have 10,000 to 12,000 inhabitants, and contains many evidences of wealth. Many of the mountain peaks in that region are over 5,000 feet high.
IN Jackson, Tenn., as a result of liberal distribution of our denominational literature, the people are reported as calling upon their various pastors to explain "why, when, and by whom the Sabbath was changed." This they are not disposed to undertake in a public way.
AT MacGregor, Manitoba, Elder G. W. Flaiz reports sixteen converts, together with a widespread interest, to the extent that the municipal council has enacted a strict Sunday observance by-law. One of the leading papers accorded Brother Flaiz space in which to set forth the principles of religious liberty.
DURING the progress of tent meetings at Rolyat, Texas, conducted by Elder W. S. Cruzan, a Baptist minister was permitted to use the tent to speak against our positions on immortality and the Sabbath; but his efforts only served to increase the interest to hear more of the truths advocated by our brethren.
ELDER O. O. FARNSWORTH, writing to the American Sentinel from Belfast, gives the following information: "The spirit and animus of Sunday laws is not confined to the United States. Here in Ireland the same steps are being taken that have been traveled by the agitators in America. The Sabbath (Sunday) Observance Society is making itself felt in different ways. Through its influence twenty-four ministers of different denominations advertised to speak on the Sabbath question April 15. Large audiences were reported from many churches."
AT Butler, Pa., where Brother A. F. Anderson has been laboring, there have been organized a Sabbath school of twenty-one members and a missionary society of fourteen members.
THE California State camp meeting closed in the midst of a rain shower on the night of the 20th inst. Elder M. C. Wilcox preached the closing sermon, from Eph. 2:8: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." The following Conference officers were elected: President, N. C. McClure; Executive Committee, N. C. McClure, R. S. Owen, H. A. St. John, Wm. Ings, M. C. Wilcox, M. H. Brown, E. E. Andross; Secretary, E. A. Chapman; Treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Company. Officers of the California Tract Society were chosen as follows: President, N. C. McClure; Vice President, R. S. Owen; Secretary and Treasurer, J. J. Ireland; Corresponding Secretary, Hannah S. Mott. The officers chosen by the California Sabbath School Association were as follows: President, A. J. Osborne; Vice President, George A. Snyder; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. M. T. Poston. The camp comprised about 2,000 persons, and at times the attendance from the outside was very large. The preaching was of unusual power. Besides the ministers of the California Conference, there were present from the general field, Elders O. A. Olsen, W. W. Prescott, A. J. Breed, J. H. Morrison, and A. T. Jones.