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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 32.

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_The Work in Chicago_

By Wm. Covert

The meeting on the South Side, near Cottage Grove Avenue, closed last Sunday evening. It is said that there were about five hundred persons present at the last service. Six of these expressed their intention to keep the Sabbath from this time forward. Since the camp-meeting began in June, twenty-five persons have been baptized in the South Side church, and there are still others who will probably unite with us soon.
Elder L. H. Christian is conducting a series of meetings in the Danish language in a tent on Ohio and Center Avenues, and has a fair interest. The district where he is preaching has been worked in the past, and therefore the attendance is not so large as if it had been a new field.
Elder S. Mortensen is conducting a series of meetings in the Swedish language in a tent on the corner of Clark Street and Belmont Avenue, and he reports a very large attendance and a splendid interest. The tent is frequently full, and additional seats have to be supplied to accommodate the people. He hopes to raise up a church in connection with this series of meetings.
Elder Chas. Scholl is conducting a series of meetings in a tent, preaching in the German language, in the northern part of the city. I am not informed at this writing as to the interest that is manifest in the German meetings.
Elder Luther Warren was in charge of the English meetings held on the south side of the city, but it became necessary for him to take a rest, and Elder F. C. Gilbert took the place in the meetings that Elder Warren had been filling. An effort will be made to follow up the interest by holding Bible readings with the people, and by the meetings in a hall, and also in the Forty-sixth Street church.
Elder L. D. Santee and J. J. Irwin will now take charge of the tent that has been used by Elders Warren and Gilbert, which is being moved fifteen miles to the northwest, located near Ravenswood, still in the city of Chicago.
A school for training home missionary workers has been conducted this summer on Anthony Avenue, there being about twenty-five in attendance, and this training-school will be continued for a time. Elder Santee will have charge of it until Elder Warren can return. Elder M. P. Howe will probably connect with the tent work at Ravenswood for a short time.
It is certainly high time for this great city to have the message, and we are endeavoring, as best we can with the talent and facilities that we have at hand, to give this third angel's message to the people of this great city. We can see many omens for good, and therefore with courage proceed with the work.
WM. COVERT.