FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 52.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

A COMPANY of five canvassers recently began work in Augusta, Ga.

Our denominational school at Keene, Texas, will open on the 14th inst.

ELDER E. G. OLSEN, president of Iowa Conference, officiated at the dedication of a new house of worship at Blencoe on the 14th ult.

THE Workers’ Bulletin of October 23 gave notice that new houses of worship would be dedicated at Tyner and Urbana, Iowa, on the 4th of this month.

A SERIES of meetings recently held in Ogden, Utah, by Elder J. M. Willoughby, resulted in ten persons covenanting to keep the Sabbath of the Lord.

FIVE members were added to the church at Sandyville, Iowa, after an eight days’ meeting, conducted by Elder J. S. Hart, which closed on the 14th ult.

THE Workers’ Record of the 17th ult. announced that Elder W. S. Hyatt, president of Missouri Conference, was holding a series of meetings in Kansas City.

EIGHTEEN persons keeping the Sabbath is the report of Elder J. P. Henderson and Brother R. H. Habinecht, after a series of tent meetings at Hawkeye, Iowa.

AT Bowling Green, Ky., where meetings were continued by Elder C. L. Boyd after the local camp meeting, ten have been baptized and others are seeking further light.

ELDER O. A. OLSEN has returned to America from his European tour, and, together with Elder A. T. Jones, was to be at the general meeting of Iowa Conference at Moravia.

ELDER C. L. BOYD, of the Tennessee field, says of the canvassing work: “Cheering reports come in from different parts of the field. Those of but little experience are doing well.”

THREE more persons were baptized at Wichita, Kansas, on the 19th inst. Elder S. B. Whitney and C. A. Hall have been conducting tent meetings there, and report a deep interest.

WE have received notice that the new church building in Chicago was to have been dedicated October 28. Elders J. N. Loughborough and A. T. Jones were announced to officiate on the occasion.

THE Bible Echo says that the questions of the Sabbath and religious liberty have been quite fully discussed in the papers of Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia. It also has news of a good work among the Germans of that place.

AT Hawthorne, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, September 8, a church organization was effected which included thirty-eight members. Eleven of these had formerly been connected with the church at North Fitzroy, and the remainder accepted the faith under tent labors of Elders J. O. Corliss and R. Hare.

ON the 8th of September Brother and Sister Masters and son, of New Zealand, sailed from Melbourne, Australia, for India, where they will engage in missionary work. Young Fairly Masters has been a student at the Bible school at Melbourne for three years, and Sister Masters had resided in that colony about a year. These are the first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to a foreign country from the Australasian field.

LAST week we published an account of a riotous attack on a Seventh-day Adventist church at Shady Side, not far from the capital of Maryland, while the service was progressing. The attack was renewed the next evening (Sunday), some of the mob going right into the house and insulting the minister. Several of the rioters were members of churches calling themselves Protestant, and

this seems to be their idea of proper Sunday observance. That seems to be the idea of the authorities also, judging from their action in the matter. Complaints were filed and fifteen of the rioters were arraigned in court, only to be released. But the minister of that church, for picking up a few tent stakes on Sunday, is put under bonds to appear for trial on the 22d inst.

AT Prospect, N. S. W., September 16, a church building was formally dedicated, Sister E. G. White preaching the dedicatory sermon. Part of the discourse appears in the Bible Echo of October 1, to be continued in the issue of the 8th. Dr. M. G. Kellogg preached in the morning, and Elder S. McCullagh had general charge of the organization of the church, having had supervision of the work in that place. The house was dedicated free of debt.

ELDER WM. INGS arrived in this city from the Southern California camp meeting on the 23d ult., and went on to the Health Retreat at Crystal Springs. He reports a very profitable meeting; thirty-one were received for baptism, some of whom deferred the ordinance until arriving at their homes. Elder McClure decided to remain in the South for a time. Elder E. H. Gates went from the meeting to Riverside, with a view to securing a place of residence.