A LETTER FROM PASTOR S. N. HASKELL.
The following letter will be of interest to many of the readers of the SIGNS, and especially those who have contributed to the support of the missionary work in New York City:— NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 22, 1902. PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., Oakland, Cal. We appreciate very much the publications that the Pacific Press have furnished for our work here in New York City, and we write to tell you that we are going to move to Brooklyn. For a good while the Brooklyn people have urged us to locate on that side of the city, and a few weeks ago we lost our hall on 59th Street. Since then we have been looking for a suitable hall, but could not find one on the Island of Manhattan. Finally last week Mrs. Haskell and myself, after much prayer, went over to Brooklyn to spy out the land, and had not been searching an hour until we found a lovely location, much pleasanter rooms than we had in New York City, at much less rent, and also in the best part of the city. So we felt as if the Lord had opened the way for us to move over there. We will move the first of the week. I write this new change of address so that if you wish to continue to send us the publications, we would receive them on that side. Our address will be Vendome, 363 Grande Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. We are moving next week so as to get nicely settled before the first of November, when we expect to start a vigorous campaign. We will have a strong company with us. Five graduate nurses wish to take the Bible course, and at the same time engage in the health work. We also will have some Bible workers who will engage in Bible work, holding Bible readings, cottage meetings, etc. We hope by the blessings of the Lord to see many souls coming in as a result of the work. We have located in a part of Brooklyn at a distance from the English church, and we will expect to raise up a church entirely out of new material. The churches in New York City that have been organized since we came, Nos. 3 and 4 (colored brethren), will continue, and we will give them what help they need. During the summer many of our people were out of the city, and the missionary work lagged a little; but now as the winter approaches we hope to get the missionary society in Nos. 3 and 4 to work again. No. 3 has taken a club of 100 SIGNS during the most of the time since the church was organized, and we hope that they will take the same club during the winter. There is a good interest in the colored church, and we will do what we can to get them to make an arrangement for a permanent club for the winter. Yours in the work, Elder S. N. and Mrs. Haskell. It is now nearly two years since Brother Haskell, together with a corps of workers, commenced work in Greater New York. Some of the visible results of their work will be seen in the two new churches which have been organized since going there. And now these workers go to a part of Brooklyn which seems to have never been entered before. For some time they have used, with good success, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES as a “pioneer” in helping to gain entrance to the homes of the people. During the past year the SIGNS office has been furnishing a club of seventy-five papers each week, free of charge, for the use of these workers; and as their club has now expired, and the work is being commenced in an entirely new field, we hardly feel like discontinuing it. However, it will be necessary to do this, unless friends will assist in paying for the papers. A club of seventy-five copies for the coming year will cost $52.50. All those who feel able may send donations direct to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal., and the papers will be forwarded as long as the donations received will pay for them.