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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 16, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 3.

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New Jersey

By A. R. SANDBORN

NEWARK.—About three years ago work among the Slavo-Bohemian people was started in the city of Newark. This work has been growing from the very first, and over a year ago a church was organized. To-day they have a membership of thirty-three, and eleven of these are brethren. About one third of the members are Poles, and we expect that in the near future a Polish church will be organized in this city.
About a year ago these brethren began to feel that they needed a place of worship, as it was very difficult to get halls suitable for their meetings. They began to pray and to plan for a building, and have continued to struggle and work until now they have a very neat, creditable building that will seat one hundred fifty persons. This building has been put up practically by the brethren of the church working nights and holidays. It is worth five thousand dollars, and they have been able to have it finished and furnished with an indebtedness of only sixteen hundred dollars.
Sunday, January 5, this building was dedicated to the service of God, and the brethren are happy and full of zeal to do aggressive work among their people. Truly God has been good to them, and we rejoice with them that we have such a creditable building which can be used to carry the truth to these nationalities. Elders W. H. Smith and J. G. Hanhardt, and Brother Paul Matula, who has been working for these nationalities, with the writer, conducted the dedicatory services.
The twenty-sixth of January we expect to dedicate the English church in Newark, which has been built practically in the same way that the other has been built, that is, by the brethren of the church. This building, when completed, will be worth about ten thousand dollars, and we expect to dedicate it free of debt.
We are glad for what the Lord has been doing for us here in New Jersey, and are looking forward to a year of blessing. While our people have been able to do so much for the work inside the conference, they have not forgotten their quota of the Fifteen-cent-a-week hundred seventy-two dollars more than their quota of the Fifteen-cent-a-week Fund.
A. R. SANDBORN.