The Italian Work in Chicago
By R. Calderone
THREE more adults were baptized and received into fellowship with the First Italian Seventh-day Adventist Church last Sabbath, November 7. Six others are ready for baptism, and we hope they will soon follow their Master in this ordinance. Our church school is doing well. It opened on September 15, with an attendance of eleven. Miss H. Berg is the teacher. At present we have twenty children enrolled. These are practically all we can accommodate. We regret that we have not been able to admit several other applicants. Children as well as parents are proud of their own school, where a Christian education is given for Christian children. The results so far have been encouraging. We give thanks to God for the school he gave to our children, and we pray for the assistance and guidance of his Holy Spirit. We are thankful for the help that has come to us from a brother of the Rockford church in getting the school started. The Swedish church in Chicago has also pledged to help our school. While we are doing our utmost to support it, still we are not able to meet all its expenses. Therefore this assistance is greatly appreciated. Tuesday and Thursday, from 3:30 to 4:30 P. M., an evening school is conducted by our Bible worker, Miss Vesta Cash, for Italians who want to learn English. We give the opportunity also to the children above the fourth grade to learn the Italian language. Through this school we try to get many interested in the message. La Verita, our sixteen-page Italian quarterly magazine, will now be published as an eight-page monthly. It will contain the message for today, printed in the Italian language, for the Italians. The printed page in other languages is doing great good, and I firmly believe it will be equally effective in the Italian language. In your neighborhood there are Italians who are indifferent to religious matters. Will you not subscribe for a copy of La Verita (The Truth), and give them a monthly waking up? The life of La Verita lies in its circulation, and you could easily help by subscribing. Single copy, 35 cents a year; 6 copies, $1.50 a year. Send all orders for subscriptions for La Verita to the Northern Illinois Tract Society, 3645 Ogden Ave., Chicago, Ill.