p. 111 | QUITMAN, GEORGIA by C. O. Taylor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 5, 1877

QUITMAN, GEORGIA.

By C. O. Taylor

While I was thinking we were the only ones keeping the Sabbath in this large State, I received a letter from a brother near the center of the State, saying he had kept it since the spring of 1872. I am corresponding with a brother in St. Augustine, Florida. There are about six keeping the Sabbath there. Also with a brother in Jacksonville, Fla., where there are about the same number who are regarding the rest-day of the Lord.

What little I have said and done has awakened an interest in some to hear more. One gentleman lately remarked to me that he had learned more about the Bible in reading it with the help of “Scripture References” and hearing one sermon than in all his life before. One gentleman holds the nature of man as we do. I asked him where he learned it. Said he, “From the Bible.” A minister that has been preaching for two years is much interested in the coming of the Lord. Some are leaving off tobacco. One gentleman that had used it for forty years, when asked by his neighbor why he left off its use, remarked, “I am reading a very excellent health journal [the HEALTH REFORMER], and am trying to profit by it, and I feel better.”

C. O. TAYLOR.