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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1879

INDIANA

Grant City.—On my return from the Rochester (Ind.) camp-meeting I held a few more very interesting meetings here. Two were baptized, and a Sabbath-school was organized. About twenty are keeping the Sabbath. Bro. Covert joined me, and replied to three discourses on the Sabbath by a Disciple minister. The truth gained the victory; to God be all the praise. I think a church may be organized here. Calls for help come in from almost all directions. Truly the harvest is great, but the laborers are few. J. M. REES.

Nov. 5.

Warrington, Hancock Co., Nov. 4.—Since my labors with the Illinois Tract Society closed, I have continued to work in the tract and missionary cause. Soon after the close of the Illinois camp-meeting we came into Indiana and attended the camp-meeting held at Rochester. Bro. and Sr. White arrived on the second day, and their presence seemed to give new life and vigor to the meeting.

Since the camp-meeting we have visited quite a number of our brethren of like precious faith, who receive us with cordiality. At Warrington, where Brn. Rees, Shrock, and Thompson had been laboring, and also at Grant City, we found quite a goodly number interested, and twenty or twenty-five keeping the Sabbath, with whom we have had the pleasure of meeting two or three Sabbaths in social meetings and Sabbath-schools. May God bless those who have recently taken their stand on God’s holy Sabbath in the vicinity of these two places, for they have had to meet much opposition. We have visited many since we came here, and we are well assured that there is much undeveloped interest, and that by a well-directed effort many might be brought to obey the truth. We learned soon after coming here that a Disciple preacher was going to deliver a series of lectures against Seventh-day Adventists at Mechanicsburg; so by invitation I went to hear what was to be said against this people by a prominent preacher of the church with which I had for many years stood identified. He signally failed to prove by the Bible a single point in which the S. D. Adventists are in error; but in his expositions of Scripture he did violence to many passages. While hearing him I was led to rejoice that though I was once in the same spiritual darkness, by the divine favor I had been led to see the harmony and beauty in present truth, and had become associated with a people who have taken their stand upon the immutable law of God.

Address me, until further notice, at Kankakee, Kankakee Co., Ill. W. POTTINGER.