Work for the Colored in Baltimore, Md.
By Gustavus P. Rodgers.
Report for the Past Nine Months
THE Lord has been with us and has greatly blessed every effort to advance his cause in this place. The entire church is in the best working order that we have ever known. The Brotherhood, the Ladies’ Auxiliary, the sewing circle, the Daughters of Zion, the Volunteer Missionary Society, the junior choir, with the Thursday afternoon meeting for children, keep the entire church in an excellent spiritual condition. We are glad for this, and we realize that a working church is a live one. These various organizations keep the members together, and also help in raising means to advance the work. Over two hundred dollars has been raised by the Ladies’ Auxiliary alone, to take care of special church enterprises. Our tithes and offerings are on the increase, the Sabbath school doing most splendidly. In nine months $415 has been sent in for the mission work, a gain of $130 over the entire twelve months preceding this. The tithe amounts to over $925 for nine months, while in the twelve months preceding there was reported but $552. Over $1,300 has been raised for the local work. Our readers can thus see that these earnest brethren have the message at heart. Over $2,600 in nine months, besides sixty-three additions to the church and fifty-one baptisms, speaks well for the activity and consecration of these members. We are now in the midst of a promising tent effort, and we trust that the harvest will be greater than ever in the history of our work. Our plans are to lengthen our cords and strengthen our stakes, and try our best to get this truth before the people of this conference. Pray for us that in all the discouragements from the enemy we may prove true to the Lord.