ECHOES FROM THE FIELD.
present at the last service. Nearly
all freely admitted that they were
convinced, if not converted; and for
them we ask the earnest prayers of
the Echoes family. Last Sabbath we
organized a Sabbath-school with forty
present, and the collection taken
amounted to enough to pay for sup-
plies for a year. Hlder Kennedy ex-
pects to remain and follow up the in-
terest.
Malcolm Mackintosh,
William Kennedy.
CHANGE OF FIELD.
My Dear Brethren and . Sisters of
Colorado:
At the conference which has just
closed at Omaha, Nebraska, it was de-
cided that I take the state agency of
Missouri. I must say that I have en-
joyed my work very much indeed
while here, and want to extend to
you all my sincere thanks for your
kindness and co-operation. God has
blessed our book work in the last two
years for which we praise his holy
name. The success of the book work
is attributable to the interest the
ministery have taken in it, and the
earnest effort of the faithful workers
in the Tract Society office, 1 shall
ever look back upon my work in Colo-
rado as a bright spot in my experi:
ence. As I go to another state I shall
not lose my interest in the book in
the grand old state of Colorado. May
the dear Lord keep us all faithful in
the work until Jesus comes is my
prayer. It is with reluctance that I
say “Good bye.” My future address
will be 18 West Fifth street, Kansas
City, Mo. G. Phillips.
NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA.
At our general meeting in Leicester,
England, last August, we were invited
by the Brithish Union Conference, to
respond to an urgent call from the
South African Conference if we felt
free to do so. After prayerfully con-
sidering the matter we decided to ac-
cept the invitation, but when our de-
cision was made. known, the North
England Conference did not feel that
they could release us then, there be-
ing so many calls for labor at that.
time. The matter was therefore
dropped for several months until the
invitation was renewed and we pre-
pared for the journey.
It was hard for us to break the
[friendly ties that we had formed in
different parts of England during the
lagt five years, but we felt that the
Lord would have us “go forward.”
We left Southampton December 19th,
and arrived at Cape Town January
13th. We had a reasonably smooth
voyage. Our ship touched at Tene-
riffe, Ascension and St. Helena. At
‘the last mamed place we remained
twenty-four hours.
We went ashore
and had a pleasant walk into the in-
terior, but not far enough to see
Napoleon's tomb. We felt it a privi-
lege to visit this historic spot.
On arriving at Cape Town we were
met by Elder Hyatt and Brother
‘Fortner and taken to the college at
Claremont where we remained sev-
eral days. As it was planned for us
to locate in Natal or the Transvaal,
we took the train and a ride of fifteen
‘hundred miles brought us to Pieter-
maritzburg,
the capitol of Natal,
where we are laboring temporarily, ex-
pecting to locate either in Durban or
Johannesburg in a short time. The
heat is quite severe at times, but au-
tumn will soon be here now, and we
expect to get on nicely. On every
side we see much work to be done
and so few to respond. It is a great
comfort and joy to know we are loved
cand supported by the prayers of dear
ones in the home land. Our perman-
nent address is, care International
Tract Society, Printing Office, St.
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa,
M. A. Altman.
BURNED IN PRAIRIE FIRE.
No doubt all have read of the prai-
rie fires that raged through parts of
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma on
the 2nd of March carrying death and
disaster with them. Knowing that the
many friends of Brother Frank
McGrew will be anxious to learn of
the cause of his untimely death, I
will give some of the sad details.
Living not far from him at Bird
City, Kansas, and in the direct path
of the prairie fire, was a widow with
two or three little children whom he
felt he must try to save. Both he
and his wife realized that it was a
dangerous undertaking, but the help-
lessness of their neighbor appealed to
them, and Frank, with another neigh-
bor to assist him, went out to plow
a “fire guard,” They had succeeded
in making one furrow when the wind
suddenly changed, and blowing at the
rate of about ninety miles an hour,
carried the flames around to the other
side of them, making escape impossi.
ble. The wall of fire, like a tornado,
swept upon them so quickly that they
could not even release their horses,
and they were compelled to run a dis-
tance of one hundred and fifty feet
through a solid wall of fire tearing
their burning clothing from their
bodies as they ran. Frank said that
three different times he thought he
must surely fall in the fire, but with
that fortitude which characterized
him in every time of danger, and
with almost superhuman strength, he
pressed on though his flesh was al-
most cooked: from his head to his
feet. When he had passed the limit
of the fire he was a mile and a half
from his home.
He started and had gone a mile
when he was picked up by a neigh.
bor. Looking up with a smile he said,
“1 guess you do not know me, do
you?” and the neighbor said, “Yes,
Frank, I know you.” When he reached
home he found that Mrs. McGrew
had become frightened at the ap-
proaching fire and had fled for refuge
to a water tank about a mile in
the opposite direction from where
Frank was _ working. Learning __ of
the condition of her husband, and
finding it impossible to get to him
because of the intervening fire, she
jumped into the water tank and
thoroughly wet her clothing, and after
several attempts succeeded in getting
through the heat and to her home,
where she found Frank in a frightful
chill. She did all that could be done
for him, and when Dr. Pegg arrived
he tried with all his father's love,
added to his physician's skill to save
the life of him who was like a son
to him, but Frank was beyond the
power of human help. He lived twelve
hours and was conscious to the last.
During these hours of awful suffering
not one word of complaint passed his
lips.
After the death of their babe sev-
eral months previous Brother Frank
and wife begah the study of the book
of Job. As he lay on his bed of pain
his faithful wife endeavored to ad-
minister both physical and spirtual
comfort. They remembered Job in his
affliction, and Frank said, “This is
the test of our faith.” When his wife
said to him, “Frank, I cannot live
without you,” he replied, “You must