GEORGIA by G. G. Rupert

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

GEORGIA

By G. G. Rupert

QUITMAN.—I have just closed a week’s meeting near this place, where a few of our brethren are living, this being the first time any minister from the North has been at this point. Our meetings were blessed of the Lord. Three were baptized, and a company being only partially organized, an organization was completed, an elder ordained, and officers chosen. One more began to obey the Lord, and we think several others decided to do so, and we gave no test, we could not tell. About $20,000 of books and papers were ordered. One man paid $200 to raise a reserve fund in the State.

I had an appointment to speak on Sunday at the court-house at Quitman. This is the court where, two years ago, one of our brethren was tried and sentenced to thirty days in jail for working Sunday. I learned from parties not of our faith that he was an excellent man, and very conscientious. He is now sleeping in Christ. The cause of his death was confinement in the damp prison. I had an opportunity to speak on the United States in the light of prophecy. The attendance was good. Many of the leading men of the place were present. We brought to view the spirit of persecution now manifested and the image of the beast as the final result. Evidence was abundant that the meeting had the desired result. I firmly believe the fruit of that imprisonment is that many will embrace the truth, as they did in the days of the martyrs, after the burning of Ridley and others. Their ashes were as seed sown. There was deep interest on the part of many. The people were anxious for reading matter. If we could only have plenty of devoted colporters and canvassers, the work could be accomplished! One man subscribed for the REVIEW, and another bought $5 worth of books. G. G. Rupert.