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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

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Kelly Hill, Warren Co., March 8.—I have been doing missionary work here and in the vicinity, and have also held nine or ten meetings. As the result, fourteen have fully decided to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; others are keeping the Sabbath. This can be a strong company, if they will always remember where their strength is, and be often in prayer. One of their number lost his hearing when very young, so he did not learn to speak except with his hands. What a comfort we find in such cases; for the time is coming when “the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” Isa. 35:5, 6.
I expect to remain here a short time, and help organize a Sabbath-school, and get them interested in the tract work. S. THURSTON.
Fleetwood, Berks Co.—I have just closed some very interesting meetings in this place. Bro. Snyder, having learned the truth in California, came home and began to talk it among his friends; and as they became interested, he tried to get some Seventh-day Adventist minister to come and preach to them. Seeing from my report in the REVIEW that I was to be in Camden, N. J., he wrote to me, asking me to spend a few days with them; and as it was but a few miles out of my way home, I decided to do so.
I spent one week there, and had a very interesting time. Held eight meetings, and there was a rapid increase of interest all the time. But for a hoarseness which I had contracted at Camden, I should have stayed another week. I expect to visit them again on my return South, and baptize those who wish to be baptized at that time. Four were keeping the Sabbath when I went there; when I left, others had decided to keep it, and many were thoroughly convinced of their duty to obey God. The people are all of German descent, and understand that language the best. Nearly all in the county belong to that class of people. I. SANBORN.