p. 764 | FIELD NOTES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 48.

FIELD NOTES.

THE brethren at Stanleyton, Va., are erecting a building to be used as a church school.

THE industrial school at Keene, Texas, will be opened November 14, and continue thirty-six weeks.

ELDER C. SANTEE reports the membership of the new church at St. Joseph, Mo., at thirty-five.

SEVENTEEN persons, writes Brother Ketchum, were baptized at the close of the local camp meeting held at Ruthven, Iowa.

AT Nebo, Ark., Elder W. F. Martin and Prof. J. L. Shaw report an accession of twenty adults and a Sabbath school of thirty members.

AT Arbela, Ohio, fourteen have accepted the Sabbath of the Lord, under the labors of Elder O. F. Guilford and Brother Albert Carey.

A PRESS dispatch says that 100 converts were baptized at the close of the recent Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting at Emporia, Kansas.

EIGHT persons were covenanted to obey the commandments of God, in tent meetings held at Viroqua, Wis., by Elder C. A. Smith and Brother R. J. White.

THE interest in meetings being held in Middletown, Del., by Elder S. B. Horton, encourages the hope that a church will be organized there in the near future.

AT Mount Holly, N. J., September 17, there were present more than the tent would hold, to hear Elder S. J. Hersum speak on the subject of "The United States in Prophecy."

THE Bible Echo says: "A letter from Elder J. O. Corliss states that thirteen were baptized at Hobart, Tasmania, August 19. A baptismal service was to be held at Bismarck the next week."

AT the Southern Illinois camp meeting, held at Fairfield last month, sixteen persons were baptized. The work is being continued by a series of tent meetings conducted by Elder H. W. Decker.

THE officers elected by the West Virginia Sabbath School Association for the ensuing year are as follows: President, T. E. Bowen; Vice President, D. N. Merideth; Secretary and Treasurer, M. L. Merideth.

ELDER H. E. ROBINSON, president of the Atlantic Conference, was obliged to flee to his old home in Oswego County, N. Y., on account of an annual attack of hay fever, to which he is subject in his Conference field.

LETTERS from Elder J. E. Graham and others, of the Pitcairn, state that the vessel arrived at Papeete, Tahiti, on the 12th of August, nine days from Pitcairn Island. They intended to remain there until the 20th, and then start for Raiatea. Brother Stringer and wife will settle on Rurutu Island, and Sister Maud Young, of Pitcairn Island, will remain with them.

A LARGE attendance at tent meetings held at Frankton, Ind., is reported by Elder H. M. Steward and Brother J. M. Warwick, notwithstanding active opposition and six adverse discourses by ministers of other churches.

THE steamer Monowai, which arrived at San Francisco on the 29th ult., from Australia, brought Sister May Walling as a passenger. She has been in the employ of Sister E. G. White during her sojourn in the Southern provinces.

ELDER A. G. DANIELLS has been holding quite successful meetings in N. S. W., in the interest of religious liberty. They have become much interested in the subject through the prosecution of Seventh-day observers for laboring on Sunday.

IN connection with the tent meetings held at Cumberland, Wis., by Elder C. W. Olds and Brother J. B. Scott, ten were baptized, increasing the company to twenty. A house of worship is about completed, and there is good prospect of a progressive work.

AT Carrollton, Mich., a building has been purchased to be used as a house of worship for the accommodation of the new converts at that place and Zilwaukee. Thirty have recently taken their stand for truth under the labors of Elder H. C. Basney and J. G. Lamson.

IN the Sanitarium training class at Battle Creek, Mich., says the Review, there are two Japanese, one Maori, a negro from British Guiana, a Syrian from Jerusalem, an Armenian, and a Greek, besides representatives from other European nations and all English-speaking countries.

THE Scandinavian tent in Brooklyn, N. Y., was cut down on the night of September 2, just after the meeting was closed. The captain of police assured Elder Hansen that they should not be troubled any more, and since that time the tent has been well guarded, and an increasing interest is reported.

THERE is always ground somewhere upon which the enemies of truth will unite, no matter how bitterly opposed to each other in general. This fact is often substantiated in connection with the work of our people. The report of Brethren J. P. Lorenz and George Lesch, who have been holding meetings in Reserve, a village near Buffalo, N. Y., says that "ministers who otherwise do not even speak to each other, united their efforts against us." Such reports are quite common.

Of the tent work in Baltimore, Brother A. J. Howard writes as follows to the Union Record, concerning the first Sabbath meeting: "Our tent was well filled—eight adults taking their stand to keep all God's commandments, beside about the same number of children belonging to these persons, who will be members of the Sabbath school. The Lord is wonderfully blessing the work here; our audiences have not been large, but have been very regular and attentive. It has never been our privilege to speak to an audience more intent on catching every word than our present one."