FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 34.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

BROTHER LA RUE, missionary at Hongkong, China, sends fifteen subscriptions for the SIGNS.

THE three western counties of Maryland have been added to the West Virginia Conference.

THE brethren in Australia have decided to issue a 22-page quarterly magazine, to be devoted exclusively to the subject of religious liberty.

AN electric light plant is to be added to the college building at College View, Neb., during the summer vacation.

TENT meetings, conducted by Elders C. L. Boyd and H. W. Reed, are in progress in South Nashville, Tenn.

BROTHER NOWLEN, a canvasser in Falkland Islands, within the four months ending April 22, delivered 323 books.

ELDER VICTOR THOMPSON has changed his field of labor from Indiana to Minnesota. His address is Box 989, Minneapolis.

IN Hanford, Cal., an increasing interest is reported in the tent meetings conducted by Elder H. F. Courter and Brother Baxter Howe.

ELDER E. E. ANDROSS arrived in this city from Los Angeles on the 18th inst. He goes via Oregon and the Union Pacific Railroad to Battle Creek, Mich., to attend the teachers' institute.

THE Nevada district of California Conference has been receiving much-needed assistance from Elders N. C. McClure and Wm. Ings, of the Conference Committee.

SABBATH, July 7, is appointed by the General Conference Committee as the time for taking a collection in all our churches and companies for the maintenance fund of the Haskell Home for Orphans.

A TRACT society has been organized at Spartanburg, S. C., with ten members. Elder E. W. Webster reports a large interest in meetings held by Brother J. O. Johnson, near Greenville, in the same State.

DURING the progress of meetings recently concluded at Debby, Mason County, W. Va., by Elder W. R. Foggin, seventeen converts were baptized, and the company there was otherwise much strengthened and encouraged. An effort is being made to build a meetinghouse.

THE General Conference Committee have recommended that the next session of the General Conference be held at Battle Creek, Mich., February 15 to March 4, 1895. Also that a ministerial institute be held the two weeks preceding the Conference, in connection with which there will be a council of the presidents of the different local Conferences.

AT the late session of the Iowa Conference the following officers were chosen: President, E. G. Olsen; Secretary, C. W. Smouse; Treasurer, C. F. Stevens; Conference Committee, E. G. Olsen, C. A. Washburn, M. Larson, Jacob Shively, and G. F. Watson. Twenty-eight persons were given ministerial credentials, and thirty missionary licenses were granted.

IT is now supposed that six of our brethren are in the heart of Mashonaland, Africa, where they have gone to live as self-supporting missionaries. Their journey from Cape Town, which was begun May 7, was 700 miles by railroad to Vryburg, and 900 miles by wagon to Fort Salisbury, the capital of Mashonaland. They were supplied with two wagons, one to be drawn by six mules, and one by sixteen oxen.

BROTHER G. JAMES, formerly of Battle Creek (Mich.) College, is now living in the vicinity of the Southern extremity of Lake Nyassa, British Central Africa, for the purpose of showing the people the truth. And there are so many places in Africa, in Asia, in Southern and Central America, in Australia, in the thousands of islands, yes, and right in our own country, where our brethren could go and do likewise. It is not necessary to wait for the General Conference to send you. When men's hearts are set to go somewhere to better their temporal condition, they generally find some means of going at their own cost. Our orders are to "seek first the kingdom of God."