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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 2, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 40.

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Pittsburgh, Pa.

By A. N. Durrant

JUNE 29 we started a series of tent-meetings in this city for the colored people. The same night two other companies began services for the white population. Failing to procure a lot in new and unworked territory, we finally pitched our tent in a vicinity where two similar efforts had been conducted some time ago. My helpers—Brother Osman Phipps, of South Lancaster Academy, and Sister Maud I. Gauntlett, of Oakwood Training-school—were inexperienced in the work, but by persistent labor and much prayer we succeeded in getting a hearing. The battle went hard, until some of us got sick from overwork. But up to August 31, when we closed, eight had decided to keep the Sabbath, and we have over sixty homes now open for Bible work, with several deeply interested. We had prayed and hoped for twenty-five souls, and though we have not achieved all, yet we hope to get our full number from the openings we have. We praise our God for what he has done for us.
August 24 I baptized two who had decided for the truth before our tent-meetings were begun. September 14 four were baptized and received into the church, and others are yet to follow.
But now our great need is a place of worship. Since the first of May, when we moved, we have been paying six dollars a month for worshiping in a Baptist church on Sabbaths only. Now that our tent-meetings are closed, we have no place for Sunday night meetings and prayer-meetings. If we remain in the Baptist church on Sabbaths, we must pay eight dollars a month rent, beginning with October. Where to go now is a problem, and much will be lost if we do not get a place for Sunday and other meetings. For the last seven years or more this little church has moved into six or seven different rented places. We have been trying to raise funds to purchase a place, but being poor and few in number, help must come from other sources, if anything is obtained.
A. N. DURRANT.