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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 12.

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PENNSYLVANIA

By H. W. Cottrell

PHILADELPHIA.—From February 22-26 I spent with the church at Philadelphia, and with other churches adjacent thereto, in connection with the Pennsylvania Conference Committee. The meetings were profitable to all who attended. The people were hungry for the bread of life, hence were appreciative as the Lord, by His Spirit, portrayed through his servants lessons of faith and trust. The preaching was practical. The various interests of the work are being carefully looked after by Elders Fitzgerald and Wheeler, who, with their wives, labored there in tent work during the last summer, with the visible result of about twenty additions to the church. These and other laborers are still carrying forward the work. They have been providentially helped in securing two large church buildings for public services in different parts of the city, of which they have full control. Of one of them they have the free use, while the other they get at a nominal rent. All are of good courage, and love reigns.
The Conference Committee laid plans for a vigorous campaign in the various departments of the work during the coming season. They have planned aggressive work, instead of seeking comfort and pleasure by settling down with, and hovering over, the established churches. I am sure this is the only proper thing to do in such a time as this. Each soul called of God to be a worker with Him, and given the message of the soon-coming Messiah, and kindred character-testing gospel truths, should not rest at ease, but rather calmly break the ranks of the enemy, and sound the notes of warning, that those who will may be saved, though many may be only as “a brand plucked out of the fire.” The Pennsylvania Conference has a larger population to whom the message of reform must be given, than has any other Conference in the United States; hence it has many responsibilities.
It was decided to hold the annual camp-meeting at Erie, June 6-16, 1901. H. W. COTTRELL.