New York by E. A. Raymond

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1903

New York

By E. A. Raymond

OSWEGO COUNTY.—Since my last report I have been seeking to encourage our people of this county in the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” by going out myself and selling that book to people not of our faith. Although the time of year was very unfavorable, forty-seven orders were obtained.

Wherever I have been among the churches, it has been my earnest endeavor to speak faithfully and wisely the “word in season,” and I trust it has been with good results. Although our churches are often obliged, for the glory of God and the good of his cause, to accept and make the best of situations brought about by wrong-doing on the part of some of their members, they ought never to be left without witness against the wrong and for the right. It was with this end in view that the Pulaski church, which has been passing through a critical period, recently passed, without a dissenting vote, a resolution to the effect that the building erected for a church be used as a place of meeting, with the understanding that the church disavowed all sanction of, and responsibility for, the wrong course of action pursued in its erection.

The writer also had the pleasure of addressing upon a number of occasions the people not of our faith who attended the Sunday evening prayer-meetings held by the Minetto church. Five or six for the first time in public signified their intention of living for Christ. The credit is due, not to the writer, but to the members of the church, who, together with Miss Jackson, the church school teacher, have labored most heartily in the endeavor to make the school what it should be,—a means of reaching the people at large, as well as the children under its immediate care. E. A. RAYMOND.