p. 17 | New Jersey by Paul Matula

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 19, 1914

New Jersey

By Paul Matula

NEWARK.—“And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.” Luke 14:23.

In these closing days of the Lord's work on the earth, we need more than human wisdom to know how to deal with human minds. Our work for over four years in the city of Newark has been confined to searching out a few of the jewels from among the Slavish and Bohemian people. We realize that the Lord has blessed in a marked degree, when we consider the mixed population in these congested Eastern cities. At present we have a membership of thirty-three, and five others awaiting baptism.

This organized church represents the result of my public efforts, and the personal work done by our church members and our faithful Bible worker, Miss Valenta, in house-to-house work.

Our method is to go to Passaic, a suburb of Newark, every Sunday morning with tracts and small books. We visit the people in their homes and sell the truth-filled literature. You will notice in the accompanying cut our company of six starting on their mission. On the last three Sundays their sales have amounted to forty dollars cash. For three months we tried to conduct meetings in a rented hall, but met such violent opposition that our audiences were almost nothing, and we were obliged to close the hall and adopt the latter method.

SLAVISH AND BOHEMIAN WORKERS IN NEWARK, N. J.

We are of good courage, and mean to press the battle to the finish, and thus receive the crown in waiting.

PAUL MATULA.