A VISIT TO SABBATH-KEEPERS

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

A VISIT TO SABBATH-KEEPERS.

A FRIEND sends us the following, requesting that it be published in the REVIEW, a request with which we take pleasure in complying:—

“Five o’clock, on a bright morning in October, found us equipped and ready for our journey of forty miles, with horse and buggy. * The occasion of our visit at this time was to attend a quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of North-eastern Ohio, to be held in the town adjoining Bundyburg on the east.

“Friday afternoon brought the brethren and sisters from a distance of thirty-five and forty miles to the house where we were guests. It was next to being at home once more with my own dear people to meet these people of intelligence and culture. Many of them had been influential members of churches from other denominations, who came out and embraced the Sabbath under peculiarly trying circumstances. One lady, the wife of a Baptist minister in Cleveland, has for years kept the Sabbath alone in her family, amidst trials and opposition. Another lady, a widow, has to encounter such trials that she thinks it necessary to leave her home and children. How is Christ’s saying being fulfilled, ‘For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.’”

“When all had arrived, there were sixteen of us, and in the evening we had one of the most precious seasons of prayer I ever knew. On the next day (Sabbath) and Sunday, we listened to preaching from two of God’s servants, who also administered the rites of baptism and communion, and attended to the ordinance of feet-washing, besides doing the regular church business, as is their usual practice at such meetings. “This was apparently a joyful meeting to every one, and I think all went away with their spiritual strength renewed. We shall not soon forget the pleasant visit at Bro. Underwood’s, the happy acquaintances formed, nor the profitable sermons and seasons of prayer and conference.”—F. E. S., in Sabbath Recorder of Nov. 13.