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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 51.

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FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER URIAH SMITH is at present visiting Palestine.
AT Emporia, Kansas, five members were added to the church on the 6th inst.
AT Baxter Springs, Kansas, on the 2d inst., two members were added to the church.
THE Australian camp meeting is now in session at Sydney, the announcement being for October 18–30.
THE post office address of Dr. M. G. Kellogg is 2 Cook Street, Glebe Point, Sydney, N. S. W., Australia.
A CHURCH of sixteen members has been organized at Pomona, Kansas, the result of meetings held by Brethren A. E. Field and F. Neal.
THE German brethren of Otis, Rush County, Kansas, are launching out in a school enterprise, under the auspices of the Conference, with a view to preparing students for Union College. Brother Doering has been selected to conduct the school.
ON the 18th inst. Brethren T. H. Davis and F. W. Bishop sailed from San Francisco for Chile, South America, where they expect to engage in the canvassing work.
IT is expected that Elder H. F. Courter, now conducting a series of meetings at Selma, Cal., will shortly locate in Oakland, to labor in connection with the church.
AT Wichita, Kansas, on the 6th inst., three persons were added to the church by baptism, and others who decided to become obedient to the faith were to be baptized on a later occasion.
ELDER S. P. WHITNEY reports a good interest at Mason City, W. Va., where meetings are being held in a German church. The Sabbath school numbered thirty-seven at the time of the last report.
SISTER LILLIE ADKINS, formerly an employe of the Signs office, but for some time past a Bible worker in Tennessee, has returned to Newcastle, Cal., on account of the sickness of her mother.
THE Bible Echo, of Melbourne, Australia, notes the organization of a church at Williamstown, September 1, with twenty-nine members. There were others who expected to unite soon afterward.
A LOCAL camp meeting is being held at Coffeyville, Kansas. Several general meetings, or institutes, are planned for different parts of the State, and this camp meeting is the institute for that section of the State.
BEGINNING October 31, General Conference Bible schools will be held at Battle Creek, Mich., and College View, Neb. Elder J. H. Durland will have charge of the former, and Elder A. T. Jones of the latter. These schools will continue twenty weeks.
LETTERS from Elder Graham, of the Pitcairn, state that Brother and Sister Stringer and Sister Sarah Young have been located at Rurutu Island, and it has been decided to leave Brother and Sister Owen at Raratonga. Plans for operations on the other islands had been somewhat delayed by political complications which were as yet unsettled.
BROTHER W. B. CAPPS has been released from prison in Dresden, Tenn., after serving ninety-seven days for having labored on Sunday. The remainder of his fine, $34.87, was paid for him through the benevolence of the American Hebrew, of New York. Of course Brother Capps could not conscientiously pay the fine himself, so his benefactors sent the money directly to the county clerk, and the prisoner was set free.
A LETTER from Elder F. H. Westphal, who has recently arrived at Buenos Ayres, reports the canvassers in that region doing well. He also states that there are earnest appeals from Brazil for help. Brother W. H. Thurston, who accompanied Brother Westphal on the trip south, stopped at Rio Janeiro, where he expected to establish a book depository and act as general agent of the canvassing work. One of our colporters had reported the discovery of a German settlement of 10,000 people in Brazil.
THE Kansas City (Mo.) Star of recent date gives a complimentary notice of the church in that place, in which it says: “In the eight years of organized life in this city there have been about 200 converts, the present membership being 140. They have labored under almost every disadvantage known to church organizations of earlier days, but during the past summer they set out to erect for themselves a permanent home at 1120 Woodland Avenue. The basement of a plain, commodious house has been finished for present use. The building proper will not be finished this year.”
“Jesus Christ Our Righteousness.” (Spanish.) A translation of Bible Students Library No. 71; 8 pp.; price, 1 cent. Address, PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO., Oakland, Cal.