132 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST YEAR BooK.
BUFFALO, N. Y.
The Buffalo mission has been in operation for three years.
At first, public reading and lecture rooms were fitted up at
considerable expense in the central part of the city, at 13 West
Huron St., and for a little more than two years the work was
carried on from this place under the management of Alex.
Gleason. But it was found that the expense was too great to
be longer borne, and the reading-room did not receive sufficient
patronage to make its further continuance advisable. Last
June a house for the mission family and workers was obtained
at 548 Fargo Ave., which will be occupied till May 1, 1887.
A series of tent meetings, conducted by Elds. A. I. Place
and H. E. Robinson, was held last summer in connection with the
mission, and a few worthy persons were added to the number of
Sabbuth-keepers. A very comfortable, furnished church build-
ing, situated on the corner of Rhode Island St. and Prospect
Ave., was then purchased for $4,000, so that a permanent place
of worship is secured. Probably about thirty adult persons
have received the truth through the mission work. Some .of
these, bowever, have moved away. Considerable canvassing
has been done, and Bible readings have been held in the past,
but at present H. E. Robinson and wife are the only ones act-
ively engaged in the work there.
CHICAGO, ILL.’
The General Conference held at Rome, N. Y., Dec. 7-19,
1882, recommended that a colporter be sent to Chicago. In
harmony with this recommendation, and at the request of Eld.
R. F. Andrews, Daniel Thompson went to that city in February,
1883. He distributed tracts and periodicals on ship board and
in the depots of the city, and lodged in Wm, Armstrong’s tent
loft at night. R. G. Lockwood assisted him for a time. The
next General Conference, which convened at Battle Creck,
Mich., Nov. 8-20, 1883, referred the subject of opening a mission
in Chicago to the General Conference Committee. In harmony
with the recommendation of this committee, Illinois furnished
$1,500, Michigan $1,000, and Wisconsin $500 to raise a fund of
$3,000, and the mission was placed in the hands of the Inter-
national Tract and Missionary Society, which volunteered to
take charge of it for.a year.
In December Fld. James Sawyer and D. T. Shireman, with
others assisting, opened mission rooms at 213 West Madison St.
Soon after this the mission was moved to 219 Madison St. The
building was fitted up for a reading-room, hall, and home.
Three or four embraced the truth during this time. In the fol-