Daniells Addresses Portland Business Men

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 10, 1916

Daniells Addresses Portland Business Men

ELDER A. G. DANIELLS has recently spent several days in Portland, Maine, delivering a number of lectures on specific phases of the message. Large crowds have attended his meetings. Several of the business men who were present at one of his lectures telephoned him inquiring if he would be willing to speak in their clubrooms, requesting that he repeat the lecture he had given in the hall. Accordingly, the next night Elder Daniells sat down to luncheon with 250 of the leading business men of Portland. He was then introduced by the chairman, and spoke to this representative gathering for three quarters of an hour on the Eastern Question. At the close of the lecture many thanked him most cordially for the address, and said it was the first serious, definite explanation they had ever heard of the present terrible struggle. Referring to this meeting, Brother Daniells says: “I have felt very solemn all day, almost sad, as I have thought of those upturned faces. I wonder if there is not some way to get the message before this class of men in our cities. How are we ever going to reach them? They will not come to a tent meeting. They seem too busy to come to a hall to hear a lecture, though some of these had been to my lecture the night before, and this led to the repetition in the clubrooms. We had nearly 2,000 people out Sunday night, and only a few of them were our own people. There is something more than ordinary about this whole work in Portland. I am seeking the Lord with all my heart to know how to do my part.”