NEW ORLEANS, LA by C. O. Taylor

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 5, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 6

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

By C. O. Taylor

ON my way to this city, I spent three weeks with the church in Bladon Springs, Ala. About thirty were keeping the Sabbath there. They were much like sheep without a shepherd. There was considerable outside interest, and it increased while I was with them, also the interest in the church. This has been the case in the past; and then because the work was not carried forward, the interest went down. Under the labors of Bro. and Sr. Burrill, the church did considerable work in getting the truth before the people. Reading matter that has been sent to different places for a hundred miles around has opened the way for preaching the truth. Had this people not stopped their efforts, but continued to work steadily, many more would have been obeying God and looking for Jesus.

I could make some allowance for their present condition, very sad in some respects, because of the newness of the way they were traveling. As a people, we have had much to learn. None of the churches of the different denominations have been called to the same path that we have walked in. I shall be much surprised, and disappointed too, if this people fail in the future as they have failed in the past. I trust they will learn Satan’s devices, and fully understand that “in union there is strength.” I shall visit them again, and try to carry forward the work. Bro. J. M. Ellett has done considerable to spread the truth. He might have done much more. He is well qualified and favorably situated. God has made his way easy, in many respects. I suppose he and Bro. Waite are out in some new field now. That was the arrangement when I left.

I spent one week in Jackson Co., Miss., with Bro. Peter H. Clark and family. He is alone in all that State, so far as I know, in keeping God’s holy Sabbath. He first heard the truth in Texas, two or three years ago. He was not idle, but was laboring with considerable success in getting the people to read. He has mental ability to preach the truth, and would find plenty of work in that direction, if he would fully consecrate himself to God and his cause. In both Alabama and Mississippi there are large fields for labor in the third angel’s message.

I took a steamer at East Pascagoula, and came to New Orleans last Friday. I regretted much that I had no reading matter to give to the passengers. I could use some here. Some German papers or tracts could be distributed. Some of that nationality are spoken very highly of as being humble and devoted. My address for four weeks from this date will be New Orleans, lock box 259.

C. O. TAYLOR.

Jan. 18.