IOWA by James Sawyer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 17

IOWA

By James Sawyer

Kiron, April 9.—During the past few weeks I have visited about three hundred families, about two-thirds of whom were Swedes and Germans. Several who had been reading Advent Harolden for a few months were interested in the truth. One Swedish family has accepted the Sabbath of the Lord, and other kindred truths. In the meantime, I gave ten Bible lectures in a neighborhood two miles from this settlement. Here I met Bro. and Sr. Miles, formerly of York State. Several acknowledged the claims of the truth as set forth, until we came to the Sabbath; they then exclaimed, “Why were not these things found out before?” I remain here by invitation. An opening is also made in a Swedish settlement where we have held one meeting. I have obtained 25 subscribers for Advent Harolden, 5 for Advent Tidende, 29 for Die Stimme der Wahrheit, 1 for the Signs of the Times, 8 for the Instructor, and 11 for Good Health; 13 of these were trial subscribers.

I feel that the Lord has blessed me in the T. and M. work as well as in presenting the truth. In a neighborhood of nine German families, where I visited eight months ago and could get only one family to take a few tracts, six have readily become subscribers. The German to whom I gave the tracts, loaned them; he then took the German paper on trial, and loaned that. Several German families are much interested in the truth.

I was with the Denison church at the time of their quarterly meeting. The friends from Denison, Dow City, and Dunlap, expressed a determination to engage more earnestly in the T. and M. work. I feel the need of the prayers of my brethren. JAMES SAWYER.