FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 33.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THERE are now twelve Bible workers in different parts of Chicago.

ELDER J. B. BECKNER reports the organization of a church of fifteen members at Shelton, Ark.

TEN persons united with the church at Fish Creek, Wis., during meetings recently held by Brother Swin Swinson.

BROTHER WHALEY, of Church Hill, Md., has been arrested for working in his garden on the first day of the week.

FOUR students from South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy and one from Battle Creek (Mich.) College have taken up the canvassing work in Vermont.

ELDER E. E. FRANKE reports a successful series of meetings in the church at Jersey City, N. J., and these are being followed by tent meetings in another part of the city.

BROTHER W. C. GAGE, well known in connection with the publishing work at Battle Creek, Mich., is now making a tour of this State, visiting friends and looking after business matters.

CAPTAIN CHRISTIANSEN, who has accompanied the Pitcairn from the beginning of her work, is now located in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he will engage in selling books and in ship missionary work.

A CHURCH of thirty-one members was organized at Hickory Grove, Leon County, Texas, May 25, by Elder Greer. The organization had been preceded by a series of meetings, conducted by Brother D. U. Hale.

THE canvassing work in Montgomery, Ala., has resulted in a dozen accessions to the faith. These have been organized by Brother B. L. Dieffenbacher. A Sabbath school organization was also effected, with an attendance of twenty.

THE sentence of Brother W. B. Capps, of Weakley County, Tenn., for doing manual labor on Sunday, was to pay a fine of $10 and costs. As imprisonment counts at the rate of twenty-five cents a day, his term will be about sixty days.

Two of our brethren, H. O. Bullen and A. J. Howard, of Shady Side, Md., are under bonds to appear before the court at Annapolis in October, for trial on charge of having done ordinary work on Sunday. They asked to waive examination before a magistrate, and their request was granted.

THE recent general meeting held at St. John, N. B., conducted by Elder I. D. Van Horn, gave a new impetus to the work in the Maritime Provinces. The membership of the church in St. John is now forty, and there are reports stating that there are twenty others keeping the Sabbath of the Lord.

Of the work in Ohio we take these items of interest from the report of Elder J. N. Loughborough, in the Review: The number of pupils enrolled at Mt. Vernon Academy is 117, which was above the most sanguine expectations. There had been a phenomenal growth in the Sabbath schools of the State,—an addition of 10 schools and 400 members during the past quarter. The Conference had decided to put six tents in the field the present season.

THE missionary ship Pitcairn did not sail on the 12th inst., as previously announced. Owing to unavoidable delays in preparation for the voyage, she did not sail till the 17th. On that day, however, a successful start was made, at 11:15 A.M. A large concourse of brethren and sisters and friends assembled at the wharf to witness the departure. As a last formal adieu, the hymn "Missionary's Farewell" was sung by the ship's company and others, and Elder M. C. Wilcox offered prayer. A number of brethren and sisters accompanied the ship to the ocean, returning on the boat that towed her out of the harbor. When the tugboat cast off her line, the Pitcairn sailed away in good style, with all sails set, and all on board of good courage.