FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 11, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 31.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER C. A. HALL reports the baptism of five candidates at Halstead, Kansas.

NINE persons were baptized in the church at Battle Creek, Mich., on the 26th ult.

WITHIN the past two weeks the church in this city has received seventeen members by baptism, and four by letter.

ELDER W. W. STEBBINS reports the organization, in April, of a church at Clay Center, Kansas, with twenty-six members.

ELDER A. P. HEACOCK has changed his address, and from this we suppose also his field of labor, from Huntsville, Ala., to De Soto, Mo.

Of the work in Maine Conference, Elder J. E. Jayne says, “The churches have received a large increase in membership this winter.” He notes the recent baptism of five at Cliff Island.

AN encouraging interest has been awakened at Debby, West Va., where Brother Foggin has been holding meetings, and arrangements have been made for the erection of a house of worship.

BRETHREN A. R. HENRY and W. C. SISLEY left Battle Creek, Mich., on the evening of May 26, and Elder O. A. Olsen on the 27th, for New York, whence they were to embark for Europe. The Sabbath previous to his departure, Elder Olsen preached in the Tabernacle, and the Review states that he gave a good report of the camp meeting in this city, and of the work on the coast generally.

ELDER J. W. SCOLES reports eight walking in obedience to the Lord, and as many more who have made public acknowledgment of the truths presented, as a result of meetings held at Toledo, Ill.

AN effort is being made to endow a bed in the Sanitarium Hospital, at Battle Creek, Mich., for the use of General Conference laborers needing treatment. It will be under the control of the General Conference.

THE case of the State of Georgia against Elder W. A. McCutcheon and Professor E. C. Keck, for doing manual labor in a schoolhouse on Sunday, came up at the May term of the Supreme Court on appeal, and was continued until the third week in August.

MRS. M. L. BROCK, of Oklahoma City, Ok. T., requests us to state that she has received the box of Bibles, etc., sent to her by a California lady, for missionary work. She has lost the lady’s address, and, being unable to send a receipt direct, she hopes to reach the donor through the SIGNS.

SOME changes have been made in the working force of Iowa Conference. Elders J. M. Willoughby and C. M. Gardner have been invited by the General Conference Council to make Utah Territory their field of labor for a time; and Brother J. W. Kelchner, late of Battle Creek, Mich., formerly of California, has been transferred to Iowa.

ELDER W. B. WHITE, president of Nebraska Conference, notes that at Loupe City thirty-seven adults have accepted the truth, as presented in a series of meetings held by Elders Lamson and Boughton. The Sabbath school numbered sixty-eight at the time of the report. Elder White also reports the organization of a church at Harold, with fourteen members, and the dedication of a chapel.

THE church organized at Shady Side, Md., on the 6th of May, brought the number of churches in the Atlantic Conference up to seventeen. Brother A. J. Howard was arrested at that place, May 21, for doing “bodily labor on the Lord’s day, commonly called Sunday.” We have not yet learned the outcome of his being placed “under the law.” His offense, we understand, was preparing for the removal of his tent to another locality.

OUR brethren in Russia are said to have great difficulty in meeting together. In one place seven of them were fined for holding meetings without being officially acknowledged as a denomination. As a result, they had to spend from three to ten days in jail. One of the saddest features of the situation is found among some exiles on the Persian border, part of whom are Baptists. These Baptists—themselves exiles for their faith—being in the majority in that class, take occasion to vex the Adventist members of the community, and tantalize them by calling them “Jews.”

CANVASSERS for our books would do well to note a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court with reference to town licenses. The Philadelphia Record gives an instance of one J. W. Brennan, who was soliciting orders for pictures in Titusville, Pa., for a Chicago firm. A city ordinance of Titusville required a license for such soliciting, and for failing to obtain a license, Brennan was fined $25 in the city court. On appeal, the Supreme Court of the State affirmed the judgment. But the U. S. Supreme Court says that the judgment of the State court must be reversed. In doing so, a former rule is reaffirmed, which says: “No State can levy a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on.”

IN connection with the recent camp meeting at Portland, Oregon, the following officers were chosen for North Pacific Conference: President, Elder W. M. Healey; Secretary, G. E. Henton; Treasurer, the Conference Tract Society; Executive Committee, W. M. Healey, T. H. Starbuck, W. W. Sharp, D. T. Fero, and W. C. Ward. The tract society officers are: President, W. M. Healey; Secretary and Treasurer, G. E. Henton. Elder Healey has been a laborer in California Conference for twenty years or more, having served for some time on the Conference Committee, and on the board of directors of Pacific Press Publishing Company.