G. E. LANGDON by G. E. Langdon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 7, 1916

G. E. LANGDON

By G. E. Langdon

From Battle Creek, Mich., to Newark, N. J.

We were in Battle Creek fourteen months, and enjoyed our work in the Battle Creek church. We esteem it a privilege to have been with the brethren there in the Master's work.

During the time we have been here, one meeting has been held each week at the sanitarium. Twenty couples of young people have been united in holy wedlock, and fifty funerals have been conducted. Sixty persons have been baptized. We have held three hundred meetings and made about fifteen hundred calls. These experiences of joy and sorrow shared with the church, have woven into our life tender memories that can never be effaced.

Sunday night meetings have been held during the year, except July and August. At the close of one Sunday night service, eighty copies of “Armageddon” were sold by Brother D. O. Babcock, the treasurer, and his ushers.

Thousands of pages of literature have been distributed by the eight district missionary societies. The prosperity of the work is due to the faithful efforts of the church in its various lines of missionary endeavor—the academy, under Prof. W. J. Blake as principal, assisted by four other teachers, at a yearly expense of $3,500; the young people's society, with Miss Frances Case as leader; and the Dorcas Society, with Sister Byron Sperry as president.

It is with thoughts of sadness that we leave this ever-to-be-remembered people to take up work in another field—Newark, N. J. This church is splendidly equipped—schoolroom, office, pastor's study, mission room, baptismal font, and a beautiful auditorium which seats four hundred. The members have done a noble work, have labored hard and sacrificed much. The church was built while Elder W. H. Smith, now of Florida, and Elder J. O. Miller, of the Chesapeake Conference, were here. Only one note of $200 remained, unpaid when we came. That is now paid, and we are planning a jubilee program for the near future. We trust that many souls may be won to the Lord by this church.