FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 39.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

AT Oraville, Ill., Elder H. W. Decker reports that five adults have taken a decided stand for the truth.

ON the 8th ult. there were three additions to the church at Washington, D. C., making nineteen in the past eight months.

AT Albany, N. Y., Elder A. E. Place recently baptized four persons, having the free use of the Memorial Baptist Church.

ELDER L. D. SANTEE reports a good interest in meetings at Gibson City, Ill., the attendance being 150 each evening, and 500 on Sunday evening.

THREE Bible workers are now laboring in Spokane, Wash., in connection with the tent work. They are: Mrs. E. G. Fulton (formerly of the SIGNS office), Miss M. Bessie De Graw, and Miss Evelyn M. Riley.

ELDER W. D. CURTIS recently began tent meetings at Malta, Ill., and on the third evening the two resident ministers and their congregations, numbering about three hundred, were present to hear for themselves.

AT Tuftsville, Vt., two persons were recently baptized by Elder Wm. Covert. He expects soon to organize the company of Sabbath keepers at that place. He also reports the baptism of four at South Londonderry.

OF the camp meeting at Jamestown, N. Dakota, Elder N. W. Allee reports an encampment of nearly two hundred persons, about one-half of whom were Germans. Services were conducted in the English, German, and Swedish languages, and twenty-three were baptized.

IN connection with the last quarterly meeting in the Scandinavian Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., four persons were baptized, making nine additions for the quarter. One other candidate for baptism was prevented by sickness. Meetings are held at 281 Sackett Street. Sabbath school at 10 A. M., and preaching at 11.

ELDER J. W. COLLIE reports eleven converts in Tampa, Fla., as a result of tent meetings held in that place, with a good interest continuing. The brethren there have purchased a house of worship formerly owned by the Presbyterians. However, the work there is carried forward amid the bitter opposition of the enemy.

THE leaders of a mob who some weeks ago attempted to pull down and burn a Seventh-day Adventist tent at Bushy Creek, S. C., were arrested by the citizens of the place, who had prevented the outrage. About the time the matter was to be heard in court, the men asked pardon and desired to have the charges withdrawn. At the solicitation of our brethren, the case was dismissed, and the accused parties entered into bonds to keep the peace. Elders J. O. Johnson and E. W. Webster have charge of the tent work at Bushy Creek.

IN a recent report of a tour of several churches in New York, published in the Indicator, Elder S. H. Lane mentions meeting Brother G. D. Ballou, who was visiting friends at Pulaski, and incidentally states that he "gave a stirring and interesting discourse." Brother Ballou has been living for several years at Grant's Pass, Oregon, and was on his way to Gainesville, Ga., designing to settle there.

BROTHER JOHN VUILLEUMIER has been laboring in the interest of the French population in and about Worcester, Mass., for some time, and reports that "a small beginning has been made." In view of the extensive work before us with the French-speaking people of the world, he suggests the importance of a French department in the South Lancaster Academy, to the end that more laborers be fitted for carrying the message to that people. How great the harvest is, and how few the laborers!

AT the recent camp meeting near Walla Walla, Wash., there were thirty-seven Scandinavians, and special services were held for them twice a day, in their own language. Others of their countrymen from the city also attended their meetings. There were also special services in the German language in a separate tent, the audiences numbering from seventy to eighty. The camp comprised in all 147 family tents, besides the tents for special purposes. The meeting is said to have been a very profitable one, and 100 persons were baptized.

THE Baltimore Herald of July 20 publishes a letter from Church Hill, Ind., to Elder John F. Jones, in which it is stated that a midnight mob had endeavored to destroy the new Seventh-day Adventist house of worship at that place. When they had broken a few windows, however, they were frightened away by persons who heard the noise. A tent which was being used by Elder S. B. Horton was also considerably damaged. The mob assembled at a little distance from the tent and indulged in abusive language and threats of violence. Threats have been openly made that the church would be burned and the members tarred.