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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 10.

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PENNSYLVANIA

By E. A. Merrill

PHILADELPHIA.—The work of the Lord is prospering, and though it is not going with the loud cry with which we would like to see it go, yet, through the readings given and the church services, precious souls are coming into the fold of safety. On account of many moving into the country to farm for a livelihood, having lost their positions on account of the Sabbath, our numbers are no more than kept up by those who accept the truth.
The church is earnestly striving to be faithful, and its members are seeking to be wholly surrendered to God, that he may use them as he will in the work for souls. The sisters have made a special effort to help poor women and children, not only with the temporal necessities of this life, but with spiritual food; and their reading the Bible with the people has been greatly appreciated by those who heard, and has proved a blessing to those who labored for the Master.
The Gospel Help Mission continues its work, caring for over two thousand men, and selling about twenty thousand penny dishes during the month. A good class of men come to the mission for help, some of them so well dressed that one is surprised to see them come, yet lack of money and no work compel them to come. They seem benefited by the Christian lives of the workers and the influence of the meetings. Two young men who have been at the mission several weeks, have just got work, one as conductor on the electric trolley lines, and the other with a firm, at seventy-five dollars a month. The mission is always out of debt, as we try to manage carefully; and the money received in the mission, with the contributions sent in, is sufficient to keep it running the year round. February 22, by invitation, Elder A. T. Jones delivered a lecture for the benefit of the mission. His subject was “The Bible and the Ages,” and the lecture was much appreciated by a large audience.
Our church now numbers one hundred and two members, and the tithe for the year ending December 31 was $1,593, an average of $15.60 for each member.
We rejoice in the Lord for the precious truths he has revealed to his people in these last days, and are thankful that, amid the strife and commotion coming on the earth, he will keep his people in perfect peace, and soon take them to be with himself.
E. A. MERRILL.