Western New York by H. W. Carr

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 3, 1910

Western New York

By H. W. Carr

THIS conference was separated from the New York Conference and was organized four years ago. It has an area of 13,436 square miles, with a population of one and one-half million people, about one million of these living in the cities. The city of Buffalo has a population of about five hundred thousand, who speak many languages. Representatives of the message here have been endeavoring to reach some of this great multitude for more than thirty years. Our last two annual camp-meetings have been held in this city, and thus many have become acquainted with our work. The great daily newspapers have contained favorable reports, which have gone to thousands more.

Recently our people in Buffalo purchased a church building in a desirable place. Elder T. B. Westbrook is laboring there, and is of good courage. We are now holding a canvassers' institute in the city, and believe that the Lord will enable us to extend the knowledge of present truth.

Rochester, the finest city in the East, with its two hundred thousand people, is sixty-nine miles east of Buffalo. The second volume of the REVIEW AND HERALD was published here fifty-eight years ago. Elder James and Sister E. G. White, Elder J. N. Loughborough, and others maintained the headquarters of this great movement here under adverse circumstances. Ohio and Michigan were “the far West” to this message in those days. When the Review and Herald moved to Battle Creek, the work in Rochester came to a standstill. Individuals have continued to hold up the light of truth, but the work has moved slowly. We held two of our annual camp-meetings there, preceding the Buffalo meetings, with similar results. As the earnest appeals have been coming from the Lord's servant for the message to return to the Eastern cities, Elder J. F. Piper and wife of Iowa were impressed to enter this great field. They answered the call, and with what help we can furnish they are making progress. A commodious church building has been bought, located on Bronson Avenue. We have now, after sixty years, a memorial building in this great city, where this winter a regular course of lectures, health demonstrations, and Sabbath services are held. The work in these cities is a great undertaking, and it has called upon our faith and courage, but the Lord has said that this message must enter the cities, and we, his messengers, must move on, trusting the Great Shepherd for guidance and results.

H. W. CARR.