OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 17, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 11

OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA.

At St. Clairsville, O., I spent four or five days. Held several meetings and Bible-readings at the home of Bro. Dunham Berrey. Much prejudice still exists there, and few have moral courage to walk into the light of truth. I trust that our meetings were full of some good.

I spent about ten days at Berea, West Va. The meetings night and day most of the time. I was happy to find here a good earnest church which embraced all points of the truth. They now have a church building, 22x30 feet, inclosed, in which they hold their services. Among other important things we had one for counsel. The brethren aided the efforts of others to help them, and will try harder to extend their work themselves. They look forward with much pleasure to the coming of Chaffee to labor in their midst. Six or eight will soon unite with this company. The church voted to take a club of about twenty copies of Signs and Reviews. At one of the closing meetings W. R. [text obscured]gin was set apart to the sacred work of the ministry by ordination. The Spirit of God bore witness that this was a proper move.

I spent two nights and one day at Walker. I found some ten or more keeping the Sabbath