p. 141 | WEST VIRGINIA by W. R. Foggin

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 3, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 9

WEST VIRGINIA.

By W. R. Foggin

REPORT, WIRT CO., FEB. 12.—Have just closed a series of meetings near this place, which resulted in taking their stand with the remnant people who keep all his commandments and the faith of Jesus. Others are fully convinced and will, no doubt, soon unite with us. One of those who commenced keeping the Sabbath was bitterly opposed to the advent doctrine before he heard it, and said he thought no person should go to hear it. Another of the number had heard but one sermon for about twenty years. A family, consisting of parents and seven children, have lately commenced keeping the Sabbath a few miles from this place as the result of labor in their vicinity in the past. One minister, when publicly called upon to discuss Sunday-keeping, stated to the congregation that the strongest evidence he had in favor of it was his experience.

I was challenged by another to discuss the Sabbath question, but not until I had labored on his circuit four months. He affirms that Sunday is the first-day Sabbath, and that it was changed by Christ’s resurrection in commemoration of that event. I expect to discuss it with him soon. He is a minister of the M. P. church, and has been challenged by a B. minister to discuss the Sabbath question. If he accepts the challenge, I think I will not again be called upon to discuss it with him. I am going from here to the Flatwoods in this county. Remember the West Virginia, and pray God to strengthen our weakness. W. R. FOGGIN.