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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 42.

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FIELD NOTES.

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ELDER R. S. DONNELL, president of Upper Columbia Conference, is conducting tent meetings at Medical Lake, Wash.
MEETINGS held at Wild Cherry, Ark., by Brethren J. A. and J. N. Sommerville, added twelve names to the list of Sabbath keepers.
AT the recent camp meeting held at Auburn, N. Y., twenty-three persons were baptized, and Brother S. Thurston was ordained to the ministry.
ON the 29th ult. eleven members were added to the church at Urbana, Iowa, and there were several others who expected to unite at an early day.
AS a result of a meeting held at a railway station in Ouray County, Colo., a dozen persons are rejoicing in the hope of salvation, one about 80 years old.
THE local paper at Milford, Iowa, makes favorable mention of the tent meetings at that place. Arrangements have been made for the erection of a new house of worship.
THE Iowa Conference has eleven tent companies in the field. The report in regard to the effort at Brayton is that twenty-four persons have been baptized and a church organized.
ELDER W. H. SAXBY, of the Cleveland, Ohio, city mission, reports the accession of sixteen to our ranks, six of whom are the fruit of labor among the Germans by Brother H. A. Cook.
A PRIVATE letter from Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., speaks encouragingly of tent meetings being held in West Gouverneur by Elder S. M. Cobb. Seven are said to have obeyed the truth.
ANOTHER language has been brought into service in furtherance of our work. A temperance tract by Mrs. E. G. White has been printed in the Maori tongue, the native language of the New Zealand aborigines.
DESPITE the angry demonstrations of the mob at Church Hill, Md., and the threats that our new church there should never be dedicated, it was dedicated on the 22d ult., Elder H. E. Robinson preaching the dedicatory sermon.
THE Southern Review says that a very liberal offer comes from Demorest, Habersham County, Ga., of a fine plot of land and suitable buildings to be donated to the Seventh-day Adventists, provided they will locate a sanitarium there.
THE tent meetings at Altoona, Pa., have been fraught with excellent interest. Twenty had begun the observance of the true Sabbath, at last report, and there was an increasing interest to hear, notwithstanding several ministers had spoken against the work.
FIVE tents are in the field in Wisconsin, and good results are reported. Aside from these other workers are disseminating the truth, and a sister engaged in Bible work in the country reports eight persons decided to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.
AT the recent teachers' institute held at Battle Creek, Mich., it was resolved that the educational secretary and heads of the various schools act as a permanent committee to consider the possibility of holding a summer normal institute for our teachers next year, and to make all necessary arrangements.
TENT meetings are being held in a country place ten miles from Gainesville, Ga., by Elder R. S. Owen and Professor E. C. Keck. They report a determined effort on the part of opponents to keep church members away, for which purpose opposition meetings have been held from house to house in the neighborhood, and many false reports have been circulated.
ELDER W. C. GRAINGER passed through this city on the 19th inst., en route from his Conference charge in the Fresno district to his home in Healdsburg. He reports five converts at Hanford, where Brother Baxter Howe is laboring; also a good interest in the tent meetings conducted by Elder H. F. Courter at Tulare City.
THE following item from the Bible Echo is decidedly encouraging: "Nine persons were baptized by Elder W. L. H. Baker at Williamstown on Sabbath, July 7. There are over thirty names on the church covenant, and a prosperous Sabbath school of sixty-three members has been organized. Sabbath services are now held in five of the suburbs of Melbourne—North Fitzroy, Prahran, Middle Brighton, Williamstown, and Hawthorn."
A PRIVATE letter from Elder W. C. White, dated Granville, N. S. W., July 15, notes that the work has been opened up in Queensland, Elder Hickox having sailed for Rockhampton. Also that a meeting house was being built at Seven Hills, under the supervision of Elder S. McCullagh. Elder A. G. Daniells was then in Adelaide, S. Australia, and Elder J. O. Corliss in Sydney, N. S. W. Letters from New Zealand indicate that the work there is going forward well.
Of the mission work in Guadalajara, Mexico, Elder Dan. T. Jones says: "As soon as it was known that we had a physician in connection with our work there, and that free treatment would be given to the poor, there came in more applications for medical treatment than could possibly be attended to. The number of callers at the medical office increased until finally there were over 100 visitors a day. This gave our workers all they could do right in their own home." Thus is continued emphasis being given to the importance of the medical missionary work.
It is a significant fact that in the bitter persecutions to which Seventh-day Adventists have been subjected in the United States, as well as in foreign lands, the persecution has, with slight exception, been instigated by professed Protestant Christians. It is a proverb of the world that "coming events cast their shadows before," and from this standpoint alone it would seem that professed Protestants are to be the future persecutors of those who will teach adherence to the plain word of God. That is, they are to do the work that the Papacy has done in the past. But prophecy indicates the same thing. In vision on Patmos the apostle John was shown that near the end an "image of the beast" would "cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Rev. 13: 11-17.