1910-11-Improvement Era-Providence RI

Improvement Era, v14 n1, November 1910, pp. 80-81.

Elder John T. Barrett, of Providence, R. I., writes to the ERA, under date of September 5, that there is an average of fourteen elders laboring in the Rhode Island conference, and they have done a very good work in Rhode Island and Connecticut during the past six months, having held 175 meetings; distributed 19,000 tracts and 1,215 books; visited 19,661 new families; revisited 3,736; spent 3,925 hours in tracting, 5,562 hours in gospel conversations and 13,429 hours in study. The elders study in organized classes during the winter under leaders, and great good is accomplished in this way. In Providence there is an excellent Sunday school and the local brethren are perfectly capable of carrying on the Sunday school and the regular meetings when the elders are absent. "We are proud of our circle of friends, who are of the best class of thrifty business people, and highly intelligent. In fact, this is the class that the gospel mostly appeals to here—the thinkers and those who are perfectly capable of standing alone, holding their ground with any one who may oppose the truth."