New York by A. O. Burrill

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 24, 1903

New York

By A. O. Burrill

THE city of Rochester and about twenty churches west of that city are in the territory assigned to me. The church records call for four hundred and sixty members, but the real membership is about three hundred and fifty. Our quota of “Christ’s Object Lessons” was about 2,760 copies. In this territory about 1,776 copies have been taken, and all but a very few sold. During the last conference year two mortgages on church property have been cleared; one church has been organized; and the money for a sanitarium, which is located at 868 Niagara St., Buffalo, has been raised. This little plant is filled with patients. All bills are paid, and it is not in debt. It is a branch of the conference work. Dr. A. R. Satterlee is in charge.

At West Salamanca, Brother H. W. Carr is in his second year’s school work, and has about forty students. This is all he can accommodate. One thousand dollars has been pledged to put up buildings, and other donations are in sight. When spring opens, we hope the work of building can be begun.

At Buffalo the work is advancing. Recently several began to keep the Sabbath. Last Sabbath four heads of families offered themselves for baptism. A sister sixty years of age has sold more than sixty copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and has begun work with The Signs of the Times. Although unaccustomed to city life, she is taking orders for the Signs, and some days sells over twenty-five copies. She expects soon to be able to handle one hundred each week.

At the last State conference, just closed, resolutions were passed looking to the opening of cafés and the health food business in the large cities, also for a summer school at the Buffalo Sanitarium for our church-school teachers. The instructions in Volume VII of the Testimonies relative to city work are bringing new life to our workers. We intend to prosecute the work in the interests of “Christ’s Object Lessons” until our quota is completed. We are greatly encouraged to continue in this message until the well done shall be said. A. O. BURRILL.