p. 747 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 47.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

THE West Virginia Conference school, at Newark, will open for the winter term October 17.

THE new house of worship of the church in Kansas City, Mo., was dedicated on the 15th inst.

AT Hanford, Cal., where Brother Baxter Howe is engaged in tent labor, the Sabbath school numbers forty members.

IN Princeton, Neb., where Elder Loeppke and Brother Lorenz have been laboring, a church of twenty members has been organized.

ELDER R. D. HOTTEL reports the baptism of seven persons at Wilmington, Del. There were others who desired baptism but were hindered by sickness.

THE West Virginia Tract Society and State Depository has been removed from Newburg to Parkersburg. The address is 952 Avery Street. Sister L. F. Russell is in charge.

TENT meetings are being conducted in Mount Holly, N. J., by Elder S. J. Hersum, with the tent pitched on the courthouse grounds. He reports a good attendance.

AS A result of tent labor at Malta, Ill., Elder W. D. Curtis reports fifteen obeying the truth. The Congregational and Methodist ministers had both invited him to occupy their pulpits.

ANOTHER of our brethren, A. J. Howard, a ministerial licentiate, has been arrested in Maryland for working on Sunday. His case is set for trial in the Circuit Court at Annapolis October 15.

FRIENDS who have been sending periodicals and other S. D. A. literature to the reading rooms at 505 Temperance Street, Knoxville, Tenn., are notified that the workers have a sufficient supply for the present. They express thanks for past favors.

SISTER J. A. OWEN reports eight conversions in the region of San Diego, Cal. By accidentally missing a station on the railroad, and going where she did not intend to go, she found two ladies who became much interested in the truth, and one fully decided to obey. What we sometimes call annoying accidents may be overrulings of Providence. "All things work together for good to them that love God."

A LOCAL paper at Milton, Iowa, has this item: "The Adventists, who have been holding tent meetings here for two months, have moved their tent to Troy. They were nice people, very much devoted to their peculiar church doctrines, and made many friends here."

BROTHER S. N. CURTISS and family arrived in this city on the 17th inst., from Kansas City, Mo., where he has been in charge of the Pacific Press branch office for the past year or more. He is again connected with the home office. Brother B. R. Nordyke succeeds him in Kansas City.

AT the request of the Foreign Mission Board, Brother T. H. Davis, who has been canvassing in the North Pacific Conference, and Brother Fred Bishop, who has of late been doing a like work in this city, will start for South America some time this month, to pursue their calling in new and strange fields.

A SISTER writing to the Workers' Bulletin from Sandyville, Iowa, says, "Our little church is rejoicing because one here has taken a stand for the truth." Let no one think lightly of what some would call a small report. Not only does a little company rejoice because of one addition, but there is "joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth."

LETTERS from South Africa state that our brethren who went into the heathen land of Matabele in search of a center of missionary operations, report securing a satisfactory location. They also find the natives friendly, although without even the "faintest glimmer of an idea of God." After a tour of inspection the brethren found that a telegraph line had followed them as far as Bulwayo, putting them in easy communication with friends at Cape Town.

SISTER VESTA J. FARNSWORTH, writing from College View, Neb., September 18, says of the college opening: "School has been in progress a week, and we have about 200 students. This is rather better than we had dared to hope, on account of the failure of crops caused by the severe drought. There must be suffering for the necessaries of life in many places, for there is an almost entire failure of crops in Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota. Many desire to attend school, but see no possible way of doing so."

AT Headland, Ala., a new house of worship recently completed is the first for our denomination in the State. Its building was brought about by the opposition of the enemy. Elder B. L. Dieffenbacher first began meetings in a schoolhouse, which was soon closed against him. Then he secured a store building, but in the midst of a good interest that was also taken from him. Failing to secure another place, he was prompted to attempt building; and, going to work by faith, the lumber was all donated in less than twenty-four hours.

ELDER D. T. BOURDEAU, who is laboring especially for the French in the Northwestern States, tells of a good interest at Marinette, Wis., where, he says, "the Spirit of God is working mightily upon the people." While laboring at Duluth, Minn., the excitement of the great forest fires was at its height. Of this time he says: "As a dense darkness settled upon Duluth and the surrounding country for several hours, making it as necessary to use artificial lights as it would have been in the dead of a moonless and starless night, I thought of the darkness of the day of God."

WE have advices from Pitcairn Island to the 15th of August, mail being brought to San Diego, Cal., by the British ship Port Crawford, and forwarded by Spreckels Bros. Commercial Co. The Pitcairn left the island on the 4th of August for Tahiti. We mentioned two weeks ago that she had gone to Oeno Island, seventy miles distant, to bring off some valuable wreckage that had been secured by the brethren last year. Brother McCoy writes that "they found all things in splendid condition, which are now on the Pitcairn, and she will take them to market, and give the money into the work. They also brought some lumber for us to enlarge our schoolrooms, and we are now making some improvements." He adds that they are "all well, temporally and spiritually."