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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 22, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 47.

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Western Pennsylvania

By J. W. Watt

INDIANA.—The work here still continues. Since we took the tent down, we have held services in a hall. Some of those who attended the meetings at the tent are in attendance at the hall, and some who did not attend at the tent show quite an interest now. At present we are holding only three services each week. Many are convinced of the truth, but seem not to have the courage to obey. The message is a new thing to these people; and as they have been educated to call Sunday the Sabbath and to regard it as a sacred day, they think it hard to make the change. Many of them are Presbyterians. There are three Presbyterian churches in this place, one of which has a membership of eight hundred. We hope the time may come soon when some will step out into the light.
Our church-school work is starting well. We have had quite a hard task to provide a suitable place for the school, and at present writing it is held in one room of our dwelling-house; but we have a small building in process of construction, and if we all have health to work, we shall soon have a basement room, thirteen by twenty-three feet, in which the school will be held this winter. We shall have ten students. Our plan is to try to build a suitable house for the school next year.
Some time ago we gave an invitation to our western Pennsylvania people to assist us financially in this enterprise, and we received one dollar in response to the call, for which we are thankful; we hope others will become interested in this work also. We feel sure that the Lord would be pleased to see many industrial schools started in our various conferences, and all our children taken from the public schools. We hope to make our Indiana school largely self-supporting, by providing employment for the students. The great part of the land we had for sale has been spoken for; however, we have about thirty-five acres yet unsold. There are a few small tracts of land near by that could be bought, and at present one house that could be rented at a very reasonable price.
Brethren, pray for our work in Indiana, which is the center of quite an area of unworked territory. We greatly desire to see the truth established here.
J. W. WATT.