Sunday Evening Services in Baltimore
By K. C. Russell
By the urgent request of the Baltimore Seventh-day Adventist churches we have been supplying help from our corps of Washington workers to conduct the services which are now being held every Sunday evening in that city. Sunday evenings, February 25 and March 4, Elder J. S. Washburn spoke to good audiences, and Sunday evening, the 11th inst., the writer spoke to a full house of earnest listeners. The attendance and interest which has already been realized at these services has demonstrated the wisdom of the undertaking, which is a source of encouragement to the brethren and sisters here. The Baltimore churches Numbers 1 and 2 are uniting their forces in these efforts. The first series for the month of March are being held with church Number 1, and during the month of April it is understood that a series will be held with church Number 2. I was pleased to meet a goodly number of the dear ones with whom, and for whom, I have labored in years gone by. I was also gratified to meet a brother who attended a series of meetings which were conducted by me about six years ago, but who has only recently taken his stand for the truth. Elder O. O. Farnsworth, who has served as president of the Chesapeake Conference during the past six years, will leave for his new field of labor as president of the Vermont Conference the 20th inst. Elder Farnsworth has just closed a successful series of meetings in Wilmington, Del., where he reports that twenty-three souls have accepted the third angel's message. Elder Morris Lukens, who has labored successfully for years in the Pennsylvania Conference, will take the presidency of the Chesapeake Conference, which has been made vacant by the appointment of Elder Farnsworth to the presidency of the Vermont Conference. Elder Lukens began his work in the cause as a book agent in Pennsylvania, and afterward served efficiently for years as their State agent. He was later licensed to preach, and subsequently was ordained to the gospel ministry, in which capacity he has labored for several years. We bespeak for Elder Lukens the hearty support of the brethren and sisters of the Chesapeake Conference, and our prayer is that a great work may be accomplished in establishing the truth more firmly in the city of Baltimore, which is one of the important commercial centers of the East.