Maryland by Gustavus P. Rodgers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1912

Maryland

By Gustavus P. Rodgers

BALTIMORE.— The progress of the work in this city is a source of much encouragement. During a successful tent effort with Elder F. H. Seeney at Wilmington, the Lord greatly blessed our labors there. The conference then recommended that I should labor in Baltimore, in behalf of the colored people. My wife and I arrived in this city December 6, and sought God earnestly for his blessing and guidance. We believe he has answered prayer, and will continue to do so.

On coming to this city we found the company of colored believers much scattered, and the public having an unnecessarily poor opinion of the cause we so dearly love.

We labored from house to house among the members, after a blessed week of prayer; and Sunday night, January 21, started a series of lectures for the public in the same hall that had formerly been used, which seats about sixty persons. The attendance at every service, even though some nights were stormy, has been beyond our expectations, so much so that we have secured a hall that will seat about two hundred, well lighted and on the ground floor, in the very best location in the city. Our Sabbath services are well attended by the public, and during the week we hold cottage meetings every night but one. We ask the readers of the REVIEW to pray for the work in this large city. Among seventy thousand colored people in this city, surely more than fifteen ought to be living out the principles of the third angel’s message. GUSTAVUS P. RODGERS.