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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 41.

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Western Oregon

By W. F. Martin

The last few months have been busy ones. It was my privilege to attend the closing exercises at both the Meadow Glade and Laurelwood schools. The former is located a few miles from the Columbia River in Washington. By request of the graduating class, I delivered the address. There was a fine class of young people here, a number of whom went into some branch of the work. It was my privilege to preach the closing sermon at the Laurelwood school. Here was also a graduating class of excellent young people. A good spiritual atmosphere pervades this school. By rightly relating themselves to the Lord, these schools may be mighty factors in fitting strong young men and women to finish the work of warning the world of the coming of the Saviour.
The Lord is blessing his work in the city of Portland. Early in the season, Elder C. J. Cole and myself, assisted by Brother T. L. Thuemler, held a short tent-meeting in Woodlawn, a suburb of this city. The Lord blessed our labors in giving us fruit. At the close of this effort we pitched the seventy-foot circle of the large pavilion in a prominent place on one of the main thoroughfares of the city. We seated the tent with chairs, put in electric lights, decorated the tent, and thoroughly advertised the meetings. From the first, the attendance at the services was good. A number of evenings the three hundred chairs would not seat the people. The smallest attendance at any time was one hundred twenty-five.
We were joined here by Elder J. M. Comer, of Minnesota. The Lord blessed the meetings. As a result of these two efforts, seventeen have taken a stand for the truth. Ten have been baptized, and a deep interest has been awakened.
The daily papers gave extended notices time and again, and commented favorably upon the meetings. Our collections amounted to one hundred twenty-five dollars.
These meetings have not only been a great factor in bringing the truth before those not of our faith, but they have aroused our own people to more active labor. Some of them had not had the privilege before of hearing a connected line of discourses on the points of the message, and it confirmed them and strengthened their faith. The Lord is adding to the church such as will be saved. I love the message, and by God's grace intend to triumph with it. W. F. MARTIN.