. bors of these servants of his.
year, and the prospect looks bright
and encouraging.
Just a word in reference to our
public work. For several weeks now
we have been conducting an interest
in Everett, which is steadily increas-
ing and we trust that God will give us _
souls as the result. We are also con-
ducting an effort in Roxbury near
where the tent meetings were held
last summer, and in the same hall
where Elder Hartwell held the meet
ings a year ago. Dr. Kress, of Wash-
ington, D. C., and Elder Starr, of
the sanitarium at Melrose, are as-
sisting ,in this effort, and we trust
that God will greatly bless the la-
On
Wednesday afternoons in -the same
hall, a School of Health is being con-
ducted. Brother Cornforth, of the
sanitarium, is giving lectures in health-
ful cookery, and demonstrating them.
Dr. Kress and nurses from the sanita-
rium are assisting in their meetings to
make them interesting and helpful.
There are many openings for Bible
readings, and the Lord is blessing
Sister Wheeler who is engaged in this
this work. She is of good courage.
Brother A. H, Adams, who is with us
here, also is of good courage, and
God is blessing his labors. Nearly
every Sabbath he visits the West
Newton church, and his reports are
encouraging from that section of the
field. Elder Starr reports showers of
blessings falling at the Sanitarium
church. Brother Palmer, our city mis-
sionary, is certainly greatly blessed of
the Lord in his ministry to the poor.
Pray for him, brethren and sisters,
that God may give him means to help
the poor people.
We have visited Leominster once
since leaving, attended two meetings
there, and were indeéd glad to find
the work so encouraging. = Brother
Hall and Sister Wilber find plenty to
do visiting and holding Bible read-
ings. The church school is being
prospered, and is growing in numbers.
I would not forget to mention Elder
ATLANTIC UNION GLEANER
Hartwell’s visits from time to time,
which are always helpful and encour-
aging. Remember us in your prayers.
A, E. SANDERSON.
MAINE
OWING to the fact that Elder White
can not be with us during the month
of February, we have thought best to
postpone our elders’ meeting until the
middle of March when he can be with
us. . This will give more time for our
brethren throughout the state to’ ar-
range their workand lay their plans
so as to attend this meeting. We will
spare no pains to make this an occa-
sion of special help and blessing to
each one. We sincerely trust there
will be a good attendance, as this will
be taken up. Begin now, brethren
and sisters, to get ready to be there.
On account of the death of our dear
Brother Giles, I have not been able to
leave Portland this week. I had in-
tended to visit some of the churches
in other parts of the conference, but
have found it necessary to pick up the
loose ends here as they fell from his
hands. We are hoping that the
General Conference will give us a
ggod, strong man of experience in city
work, who can take hold of the work
here. Certainly we need help just at
this time. It has seemed best to ask
Brother Grant to remain in Portland
for a little and devote his time to Bible
work ; visiting those who are inter-
ested and following up by house to
house labor the interest here; thus
holding things together until we can
secure permanent help. He will also
act as leader of the church, I am
sure the Portland church will appre-
ciate this, and will give to Brother
Grant their hearty support and help.
I am planning to leave Portland
this week, if all is well. I will meet
with the Shawmut church Sabbath
and Sunday February 12 and 18,
Skowhegan 19, 20, and Richmond
26-27. I trust that all our people
living near these places will note the
appointments and meet with the
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church nearest them at this time. I
am looking forward with pleasure to
meeting and becoming acquainted
with you all. Let us pray earnestly
that the dear Lord may richly bless
these meetings.
O. MONTGOMERY.
FIRST SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
ITALIAN CHURCH v
Brooklyn, N. Y.
I am glad to say to the GLEANER
readers that during the year 1909 ten
precious souls came out from the great
Babylonian multitude of Greater New
York, and embraced the cross of
Christ. On Sunday, Jan. 16, 1910,
after a spiritual talk to the congrega-
tion gathered, four souls were baptized
in the German Seventh-day Adventist
church ‘of Brooklyn. When I think
that four years ago in the United States
of America there was only one
Seventh-day AdVentist member, my
heart rejoices at the progress made,
and the fact that we now have an or-
ganized church of twenty-four mem-
bers, besides fourteen dthers who have
been transferred. Some are gone to
other cities of the States, and others to
their own lands, proclaiming the truth
to those whom they meet. = I think the
Lord has made New York City a
place for training men of all nationali-
ties to give the truth to their own. We
give the Lord thanks for this special
blessing to my people.
I hope the brethren of this country
will be able to understand the difficulty
we have to contend with in giving this
truth to this people. Here in this
country, we have a working class of
people who come to make money, and
are not of the religious and church-
going class, but are very superstitious
and ignorant. Many of them come
from the mountains, and do not know
how to read or write. They think
that the Protestants are all devils,
therefore they persecute us constantly.
Many of them do not even go in the
Roman Church, but have great confi-
dence in the priests and love them.