p. 10 | Progress in Indiana by Morris Lukens

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 15, 1911

Progress in Indiana

By Morris Lukens

ARRANGEMENTS have been made to hold six tent efforts in Indiana preceding our camp-meeting in Indianapolis, August 3–13. The tents will be located at Marietta, Indianapolis, Newcastle, Kendallville, Greensburg, and Carbon.

Reports received from the laborers during the first five months of this year show many additions to the faith. Elder W. A. Young reports eight new Sabbath-keepers at Rochester. Elder A. L. Miller, who has been holding meetings in Indianapolis, reports additions to the churches each month as a result of the efforts of himself and the faithful Bible workers in this city.

Elder U. S. Anderson, who has held meetings at Muncie and Elnora, reports about twelve new Sabbath-keepers this year. Elders J. M. Ellis and E. R. Lauda just closed a series of meetings near Medaryville, at which place six or eight have taken their stand for the truth. Elder O. S. Hadley’s efforts on the West Side, Indianapolis, have also been blessed by the addition of some to the church.

Brethren Hubbard and Allen, who are now holding a tent-meeting at Marietta, report a number of new Sabbath-keepers at Waldron and Salem, where they have held meetings. Five of the sanitarium family were baptized recently by N. H. Pool. Five have accepted the truth at Carbon and New Harmony, as a result of efforts by Elder H. M. Kelley.

After our good camp-meeting last fall, Brethren J. H. N. Tindall and C. E. Garnsey, who came to this conference from Loma Linda, began meetings at Hartford City. The Lord blessed the efforts of these brethren. Brother Tindall’s parents, one brother, and two sisters were living at Hartford City; and before the meetings closed, he had the privilege of seeing his mother, his brother and wife, and his two sisters and their husbands, accept the message for this time. It was the writer’s privilege to visit the Hartford City church on January 1, and baptize twenty-four who had taken their stand for the truth as a result of the efforts of these brethren. Later in the spring, meetings were held in a church about two miles from

Hartford City, at which time fourteen others began the observance of the Sabbath, eleven of them being baptized on Sunday, May 28. Not only are these all thoroughly grounded in all points of doctrine, but, to show their appreciation of the work that has been done for them in bringing the light of truth to them, they have faithfully paid their tithes and given liberally to the support of other branches of the work, and have purchased a new tent, 52 x 72 feet, in which to hold meetings this summer in Indianapolis.

We are also pleased to state that, in addition to the growth in membership, there has been a substantial increase in the tithe, each of the past twenty months showing an encouraging increase over the corresponding month of the preceding year. Following is a comparative statement of the tithe sent to the Indiana Conference treasury for the first five months of the years 1909, 1910, and 1911:—

	1909	1910	1911
January,	$1,272.23	$1,414.91	$1,576.18
February,	1,020.08	1,668.94	1,670.79
March,	1,460.54	2,137.44	2,482.56
April,	1,729.53	1,816.47	2,305.22
May,	1,007.22	1,473.69	1,828.20
Totals,	$6,489.60	$8,511.45	$9,862.95

We are deeply grateful for the Lord’s guidance, and thank him for his constant blessings upon the efforts made to advance the cause of truth in Indiana.

MORRIS LUKENS.