FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 32.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

BROTHER W. H. BROWN reports the organization of a Sabbath school of twenty members at Joplin, Mo.

ELDER W. F. MARTIN reports the baptism of six persons at Ava, Perry County, Ark., and five at Ellsworth.

In connection with the quarterly meeting at Stephenson, Mich., six were baptized and added to the church.

AFTER the close of the recent canvassers' school in Indianapolis, twelve members were added to the church there by baptism.

In three months, ending May 4, our canvassers in Louisiana took 1,905 orders for books, notwithstanding the exceeding hard times.

ELDER S. P. HORTON is conducting tent meetings at Church Hill, Md., and states that the "rulers" are using herculean efforts to prevent attendance.

ELDER R. D. HOTTEL has located in Wilmington, Del., and is conducting a series of tent meetings in that city. He reports the baptism of two sisters at Rock Hall, Md.

THE Indiana Conference Committee has placed six tents in the field for the season, beginning as follows: Fort Wayne, Connersville, Buffalo, Princeton, Lovee, and Nashville.

ELDER P. B. OSBORNE notes that the camp meeting last year at Bath, Me., left a good impression; and subsequent labor has led a goodly number to further investigation, twelve of whom had taken a stand for the truth at date of report.

UNDER the labors of Brethren J. W. Boynton and F. B. Armitage, a church of fourteen members has been organized near Goose Lake, Nebraska. The company has erected a new house of worship, and the Sabbath school membership is reported at thirty-six.

BROTHER J. E. EVANS reports a few days' labor through an interpreter of the Holland language at Fremont, Mich., when five persons started in the service of the Lord. Following this work he made a short stay at Muskegon, where four young people gave themselves to the Lord. At Baldwin a Sabbath school of sixteen members was organized, and weekly prayer meeting established.

THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has affirmed the Circuit Court in the case of Brother W. B. Capps, convicted of violation of the Sunday law by cutting corn on that day. He will now have to serve a term of imprisonment, and the State has squarely assumed the responsibility of enforcing the observance of a religious institution upon its citizens, regardless of their conscience in the matter.

ELDER ISAAC MORRISON and wife, formerly of the North Pacific Conference, have been selected by the Foreign Mission Board to go as missionaries to the Windward and Leeward Islands. This group is comprised in a British colonial government, of which the principal islands are Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Grenada, Tobago, and St. Lucia. They are also known as part of the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies.

ELDER J. M. COLE writes encouragingly of the work on Norfolk Island. Some have commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, although at the time of writing he had not preached a sermon on the subject. Of the population, he gives the number at 575; married couples, 91; widowers, 10; widows, 13; number above 21 years of age unmarried, 96; above 14 years, 77; under 14 years, 197. The island is about twenty miles in circumference.