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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 19, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 51.

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Oregon

By H. W. Cottrell

PORTLAND.—Taking advantage of a providential opportunity afforded us by the present war in Turkey, we secured the largest theater in the city of Portland, with a comfortable seating capacity of three thousand, placing the work of advertising for a Sunday afternoon service in the hands of some of our business men (brethren) who are up-to-date advertisers. The lecture was advertised to be delivered from the viewpoint of the foreknowledge of God, as indicated in the Bible. The theater, which could be had for that period only, was filled to its utmost capacity, and hundreds were turned away.
We followed up this effort with a Sunday evening service in the largest hall we could secure; however, the hall would seat only about eight hundred, so there was not seating room for the people.
Arrangements were then completed to secure the Gipsy Smith Tabernacle for an afternoon meeting Sunday, November 17, with the result of a most appreciative audience of thirty-five hundred persons. Plans are completed to carry forward the work so well begun. Five discourses have already been delivered, covering various lines of prophecy which unmistakably reveal divine evidences of the early end of barbarous wars and earthly affairs, and the soon triumph of God's truth and people.
Elder Luther Warren has done the speaking, assisted in other respects by Elders M. H. St. John and J. T. Nethery, and the writer.         H. W. COTTRELL.