p. 61 | FIELD NOTES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 28, 1892

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

ELDER J. B. GOODRICH reports six additions to the church at South Norridgewock, Maine, October 15.

ELDER F. PEABODY reports the baptism of three persons at North Warren, and six at Bear Lake, Pennsylvania.

THE church at South Lancaster, Mass., now numbers 218, eighteen having been added in the latter part of October.

As a result of meetings at Luce, Michigan, Brother W. H. Falconer reports twenty accessions to the faith, and meetings were being continued in a schoolhouse.

ELDER PAUL E. GROS reports the baptism of four persons at Robinson, Wisconsin, with four or five more to follow soon, and a good degree of earnestness on the part of the little company there.

AT Poseyville, Indiana, Elder D. H. Oberholzer was granted the best hall in the place, in which to hold meetings, free of charge. Four were baptized. Later, he reports a prosperous work at Marion, same State.

IT is designed to organize a South African Conference during the coming month of December. This not only indicates the growth of the work in that comparatively new field, but it will add much to the convenience of management.

CAPTAIN C. ELDRIDGE, manager of Review and Herald Publishing Company, arrived in Oakland on the 16th inst., on business connected with the outfitting of the missionary ship Pitcairn for its second voyage among the islands of the South Pacific.

ELDER C. SANTEE reports the organization of a church of sixteen members at Carthage, Missouri. Also an organization at Schell City, with twenty members, to be known as Clear Creek church. Here the brethren have subscribed sufficient means to build a house of worship.

ELDER R. G. GARRETT has been holding a series of meetings in the Baptist Church at Rockbridge, Tennessee. He says: "This county [Sumner] is very much in need of missionary labor, and anyone who desires to help in this work can do so by sending reading matter, in the form of pamphlets, tracts, or periodicals, to my address here. I will also furnish names to any who desire to send reading direct to them."

OF the work of Elder J. S. Washburn, in Bath, England, the Herald of that city (Oct. 31) says: "The very large congregations at the addresses given by Mr. Washburn on the book of Daniel, at the Assembly Rooms, yesterday, evidenced an increasing interest. The special studies were on the insane king, the feast of Belshazzar, with its mysterious handwriting and most tragic end, and the wonderful deliverances from the fiery furnace and the den of lions. One of the special lessons drawn from the latter was that Church and State always flourish best when separate, and that their union only works ill to both, that civil government should not interfere in any way with religion, and that religious tests and enforced religious observances only develop hypocrisy and work injustice."

AT Luray, Virginia, Elder T. H. Painter met with strong opposition from the Baptist and Lutheran ministers. They warned their members not to "follow Jews and devils." Brother Painter says: "The preachers and others have warned all who had houses or halls to rent, not to rent to us, and to keep these Jews out of town. We tried to get the schoolhouses, and other rooms that would do to hold our Sabbath school and other meetings in, but we failed."

OF the work in Tahiti Elder A. J. Read writes September 29: "Our first and greatest work is to get a literature into the native language, and, though I have been here only five weeks, yet, by the help of our friends here, we have several Bible readings ready to be printed, and will send them for that purpose by this mail." They are not allowed by law to hold public meetings of more than twenty persons in an audience, therefore the work must be done mainly by personal conversation and the distribution of literature.

BROTHER J. R. McCOY recently received letters from friends on Pitcairn Island, dated August 26. They report having had abundant rains, and also bear the good tidings that Elder Gates was improving in health. He was conducting a school, in which the principal studies were Bible and grammar. His labors for the benefit of the islanders are highly appreciated. People who are not surfeited with privileges are generally appreciative. The people were preparing to build him a house, and were doing all they could to make him comfortable. He was taking frequent salt-water baths, which appeared to be benefiting him physically.