Another Church Organized by William Covert

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 31, 1907

Another Church Organized

By William Covert

By special request of the brethren and sisters at Hinsdale, Ill., it was my privilege Sabbath, October 12, to organize a church there. After the Sabbath-school, held in the sanitarium chapel, a congregation of about eighty persons, composed of helpers, patients, and friends, attended the noon services.

In the afternoon a congregation of about fifty persons met, and we organized a church of forty-nine members, and following the organization the ordinances of the Lord's house were celebrated. The whole membership by a rising vote requested that the newly organized church be admitted into the Northern Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

The church elected a full corps of officers, and starts out in this relation to the cause with courage and earnestness in working for souls.

Probably twenty of the forty-nine had previously been members in our Chicago churches. The others were persons who came from other conferences, or who had lately received baptism at some of our meetings, or who belonged to depleted churches where letters could not be obtained. Some of these have lately come into the truth through the teaching of the sanitarium helpers. The Lord blessed in the services of the day, and the friends were made glad because of the important step which they had taken. We believe that the Lord was in the move that was made.

Wm. COVERT.