FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 35.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

A THREE weeks' canvassers' institute at Baltimore closed on the 1st inst.

AT San Jose, Cal., four candidates were baptized by Elder D. C. Hunter on the 23d ult.

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE has planned for a canvassers' school next winter, also for a permanent Conference Preparatory School.

ELDER S. B. HORTON states that Brother Whaley, of Church Hill, Md., whose arrest for garden work on Sunday has heretofore been mentioned, was again arrested June 18, for chopping wood on Sunday. He adds that "wood chopping on Sunday is common here, and is considered harmless except when done by Seventh-day Adventists."

ELDER D. E. LINDSEY, who is holding tent meetings in connection with Brother J. S. Iles, at Holgate, Ohio, states that they "have more to listen than the tent can accommodate."

TENT work is being conducted in the State of New York at the following places: City of Buffalo; Binghamton, Broome County; Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County; State Hill, Orange County; Nunda, Livingstone County. These points include almost the extreme limits of the State, west, northeast, and southeast. The State camp meeting is to be held at Auburn, commencing on the 26th inst.

ONE of our canvassers, whose field is Braxton and Clay Counties, W. Va., reports having "learned something of what hard times really mean." He says: "I found some of my subscribers in the mountains digging ginseng to buy bread to keep their families from starvation. Another told me that he had had just five cents in money since last March, and, having loaned that, he never got it back."

OF the tent interest at Bushy Creek, Anderson County, S. C., mentioned last week, Elder E. W. Webster writes very encouragingly. Twenty-five had begun to keep the Sabbath of the Lord; they had organized a Sabbath school of thirty members, and there was still a growing interest. It was the first tent effort in the State, and the tent was pitched in a country place. Brother J. O. Johnston was connected with Brother Webster in the work.