A Growing Sabbath Interest
By R. K. McCune
DEAR BRETHREN: The REVIEW is the only preacher we have. It is, however, a good one, and comes about the beginning of the Sabbath filled with precious truth and valuable instruction. We should be very lonesome without our weekly visitor. And that is not all! It passes round from hand to hand, and neighbor to neighbor, with a happy greeting for all, until it is about worn out. Still it does not altogether supply the place of the living speaker. I did not know there was such an anxiety to hear a preacher until it was reported that Eld. Lane would not be here this fall, when quite a number expressed a desire to hear him. Some expect to move away about Christmas, and wish to hear him before they go. The truth not only holds on here, but is slowly spreading. There are now four white families keeping the Sabbath, composed of ten grown persons and eight or ten children. There are also some others convinced, who talk as if they would take hold if there was a church organized here. One colored preacher has, by reading, discovered the true Sabbath. He was a missionary Baptist. He is now very anxious to hear Eld. Lane, having heard only one of his sermons, which was on the Sabbath question. He then said it was an awful thing for him to come down here and teach such a doctrine as that; but he is now contending boldly with both white and black. We very much want a preacher. I think if Eld. Lane or some other preacher could spend the winter here, a good work would follow. We will help all we can with our means, and if a tent could be sent here for the coming summer, I believe there would be enough of God's people gathered up to raise the money to pay for it. There are some that believe our views are scriptural, yet they think themselves and their doctrines acceptable to God because they consider their religious excitement the work of the Holy Spirit. Will not some one give us an article in the REVIEW on this subject?