Pennsylvania by Chas. F. Ulrich

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1915

Pennsylvania

By Chas. F. Ulrich

PITTSBURGH.—As our first English church was unexpectedly left without a pastor, I was asked to conduct the tent effort in Pittsburgh for the summer. At first it seemed as if Satan was trying to hinder the work on every hand. He almost succeeded in preventing us from pitching our tent on the lot selected, but God gave the victory. I believed that there were honest persons in this place who would take their stand for the truth, and the summer's work demonstrated it.

The meetings were the best that I ever conducted or attended. The Lord was with us night after night by his Spirit. Men have told me that they felt the Spirit of God hovering over the tent. Hearts were softened by the messages of truth. The attendance was excellent throughout whether we advertised or not. The secret of the success was that it was an effort accompanied by much prayer.

Although this was the third time in four years that the tent was pitched on the same spot, yet I am told that it was the best attended and most fruitful effort of any. I have baptized into the church twenty persons, and there are four or more awaiting baptism. To God be all the glory.

The First Seventh-day Adventist Church is in a healthy, flourishing condition, and the prospects for further accessions to the church were never brighter. The brethren are alive and alert. The Young People's Missionary Volunteer Society is a credit to the conference. The future looks bright, and with God's help and earnest labor many souls will be brought to the knowledge of this message. May the Lord pour copious showers of blessing upon their earnest efforts, and make this church a light which cannot be hid, an instrumentality that shall minister to the saving of precious souls. CHAS. F. ULRICH.