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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 9.

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Greater New York

By K. C. Russell

SABBATH and Sunday, Feb. 6 and 7, 1909, I spent in Greater New York. Sabbath morning I spoke in Church No. 1 in New York City. There was a good attendance, and a deep interest was manifested while the subject of religious liberty was discussed. A liberal offering was taken for the religious liberty work.
In the afternoon a union meeting was held in our Tabernacle in Brooklyn, where two nationalities of our people—English and Scandinavian—meet for worship. I was pleased to meet at this service Elder Claude McMoody, who had just arrived from England on the steamer “Majestic” the night before, and joined me in the services. It being our annual religious liberty day, the services in Brooklyn consisted of a discussion of the theme of religious liberty. Elder McMoody gave a stirring and interesting talk on conditions in Turkey as the result of the declaration of liberty in that country. An offering for the religious liberty work was also taken at the close of the service. We believe that this meeting proved a great blessing to those in attendance.
Sunday morning I held a meeting with the gospel workers of Greater New York. A good spirit pervaded the service. In the afternoon the Greater New York Conference committee held a meeting. One listening to the recital of the urgent needs for means and workers in Greater New York, could not fail to be impressed with what the spirit of prophecy has told us over and over again concerning the importance of working our large cities. It seems to me that our people throughout the country should be aroused to the importance of the work in this great metropolis, with its five million inhabitants. It is evident that now is our time to work these great centers of population, lest the visitations of God's wrath shall sweep them out of existence, as other cities have recently been visited, before they had heard the third angel's message.
K. C. RUSSELL.