Your ShelfYour Projects

Chicago Italian Work

17%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 57.

Read the full edition

Chicago Italian Work

By R. Calderone

WE are glad to report that the Italian work in Chicago is making steady and good progress. Sabbath, October 9, we had the privilege of burying three persons with Christ in baptism. These three have joined our church, which now numbers thirty. We have quite a number of interested ones, and a few are ready for baptism.
The Italian church school is again in operation this year, with an attendance of twenty-four. Seven grades are taught by Miss Amalia Eitel. If our school-room were larger, and we had more desks, we could have more pupils. This church school is proving a great blessing to our Italian work, and we are anxious to see our children saved and have them trained in the Lord's work. Some of the children will in time become valuable workers for the Italian people.
Our publication, La Verita (the Truth), is meeting with excellent success. We sold the last issue of the paper so readily that we decided to print one thousand more copies of the next issue. Most of the papers are sold in Chicago, but brethren and sisters in other places where there are Italian communities have also circulated the paper to good advantage. Are there Italians in your neighborhood, dear reader? If so, we shall be pleased to mail you some of these truth-filled papers. The paper is a twenty-four-page quarterly, with a beautiful three-color cover. It is well illustrated. It contains a table of contents printed in the English, so that one may know what the paper contains. Many of our American brethren and sisters here in Chicago have been selling the magazine without being able to speak one Italian word. The paper speaks for itself; but as it cannot walk, it needs to be carried by somebody who believes in the goal, “The third angel's message to all the world in this generation.” Now is the time to work. The Italians are everywhere, and their number is steadily increasing. We shall be pleased to furnish any one interested in this most important missionary enterprise with sample copies of the paper. Drop us a postal card, and we will gladly furnish you any information we have on hand in regard to the Italians and our work among them.
Our literature offers a most splendid opportunity for every member to be an active missionary; and as the foreign work in this country is a most neglected part of this great cause, we appeal to you, dear reader, to help us give the message to the hundreds of thousands, yea, millions, of Italians in this country. All requests and orders should be sent either to the North American Foreign Department, 2645 Ogden Ave., Chicago, Ill., or to the undersigned, 1419 W. Austin Ave., Chicago, Ill.
R. CALDERONE.