MASSACHUSETTS by K. C. Russell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 3, 1901

MASSACHUSETTS

By K. C. Russell

It is over one year since I became connected with the work in this Conference. Last season, in company with Elder S. A. Farnsworth and others, I labored in tent work, and the Lord blessed in bringing to a knowledge of present truth a good company of believers in Medford. Others accepted the gospel in Arlington. Success also attended the work of last winter and spring. About twenty-five persons have been baptized during the past year, some of whom accepted the Sabbath last summer. A number of them, and others, have been added to the Boston church.

There has been an encouraging increase in the amount of tithe, and the response to the various calls for means to advance the message has been liberal. Our people in this field have also made a good beginning in the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.”

This season Elder M. D. Mattson and I, in company with other gospel laborers, are conducting a series of tent-meetings in a beautiful suburb of Boston. We were unable to begin these meetings until July 19, owing to a delay in securing our new tent from the manufacturer in this city. The interest has not been what we hoped for; the location has not proved a desirable one to secure a good attendance. There are, however, a number of whom we are hopeful.

Last Sabbath, the 10th inst., Dr. J. H. Kellogg spoke to a good audience of Sabbath-keepers in the interests of the gospel of health. We are encouraged in the belief that the doctor’s visit here will greatly advance the medical missionary work in this important field. K. C. RUSSELL.