The work on the west coast of Africa, including Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, is very encouraging. A little over one year ago I visited Gold Coast, and after three days of faithful searching at Cape Coast and Elmina, failed to find one soul obeying the Sabbath of the Lord. I met a son, however, of Brother F. I. U. Dolphijn, who at one time had kept the Sabbath. He gave me information concerning his brother Frederick and his father, who were two days' travel from Cape Coast, at Appam. By the time this information had reached me, I had made all arrangements to return to Sierra Leone, up the coast nine hundred miles. At Sekondi we stopped to take passengers and produce, and while in conversation with a native, I learned he was acquainted with our Brother J. D. Hayford. I at once wrote a few lines to the latter, and shortly after my return received a good letter from him.
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA
After waiting anxiously for some months for our tent from America, it arrived the first week in December, 1906. I had already made arrangements for a lot to set it on, had cleaned it up, and paid for it for three months. Just as we were about ready to put up our tent, I received a note, with money returned, saying that we could not have the lot. It belonged to a religious organization, and was held as mission property.
The Lord gave us a good lot nearer the center of the city, and we began getting it ready as fast as we could. By the time we had it ready, the Christmas season was at hand, so we postponed our work until it was over.
It was evident to my mind that our forty-foot tent would be too small to accommodate the people. During our waiting time, I bought materials and made a splice twenty by forty feet, to enlarge it. Now it is forty by sixty feet, and we have seated it to accommodate four hundred persons very comfortably. We opened our meetings on Thursday evening, January 10, with every seat occupied, and hundreds around the tent.
From the time I reached this city, I must confess I almost feared a large public gathering. I was afraid our tent would be torn down. I have learned a good lesson. God reigns here, as well as in other lands, when we give all over into his hands. Every night our meetings have increased in interest and numbers. We have now held twelve meetings, and our congregations are seldom less than one thousand people.
The deepest solemnity has taken possession of all, even the children. From the beginning to the close of each service, the best of order prevails. I have spoken on the law, and incidentally brought in the Sabbath, and some have decided. Last night more than three hundred arose for prayers. Surely God is going out before his remnant people.
Our book sales have already amounted to $6.34, and our collections to $14.21. More than thirty were present at our first Sabbath meeting in the tent. These were not all Sabbath-keepers.
There is some opposition by the ministers. One notified his young people that unless they ceased attending the meetings at the tent, he would remove their names from the church records. They continue to come.
Our school is progressing nicely. We now have over thirty enrolled. A young sister, formerly from America, is assisting Mrs. Babcock in this work.
Our canvassing work is taking a step forward. An aged brother who has had many years' experience in mission effort, has accepted the Sabbath, and taken hold of the book work, and is making a success. We look for brighter days on the west coast of Africa.
Wonderful News From China
By A. T. Robinson
A. T. ROBINSON
“The home secretary of the American Board, Dr. Cornelius H. Patton, in the Quarterly News Bulletin sends out this wonderful statement of the progress of the work in China:— “‘China is turning from idolatry. The astonishing news comes that the native press is attacking idolatry. Will won ders never cease? The progressive Chinese officials continue to organize schools. Five thousand have already been started in the capital province of Chi-li. In two cities we have heard that the officers of Yuan Shih Kai removed the gods from idol temples, and burned them in the market-place. In another place he had the gods dumped into the river; and as they floated toward the sea, the people lined the banks and cheered. The change of sentiment on the part of the Chinese, which makes such news possible only seven years after the Boxer uprising, is the wonder of the world. Yet why should we wonder in view of one hundred years of leavening influence on the part of missionaries of many Boards? Their time has come at last.’”
“The awakening has also reached India, and one may soon see the time when it shall be literally true that ‘a nation is born in a day.’”
Opportunity of Christian Laymen
“Secretary Patton also tells what one Christian layman is doing, and what he is doing thousands of men may do and will, when they get the larger vision of opportunity which this man from the West holds:—
“‘A man in the West has just made a most extraordinary offer. He will assume the entire support of a missionary and his wife in China, including salary, outfit, traveling expenses, and, if necessary, building a house. The offer calls for twenty-two hundred dollars this year, and possibly even more during the second year. ‘He assumed this obligation for thirty years, and is considering providing in his will for its continuance when he is gone. He says: ‘When I realized that men of the character and ability of your missionaries were willing to go to China or other foreign fields for such a small sum, I began to think seriously that I wanted to have a part in that work. Of course, I am not the man to do it myself, for more reasons than one. However, if I furnish the means for a man to go to some field to make it his life-work, a man who would not otherwise have gone, had I not stepped forward and provided the means, under such circumstances I could look at his work as my own work.’ Two other men have made similar offers recently, and it is evident that more and more individuals will be assuming the entire support of missionary families.’
“‘There is in this a distinct call to men of wealth to invest money in this work of hastening the coming of the kingdom of God, and there is no better-paying investment for men’s money to-day.’—Nebraska State Journal.
There are a good many Seventh-day Adventists whom the Lord has blessed with sufficient means to enable them to devote a sufficient sum each year to send and support a missionary and his family in some foreign field. What a splendid investment it would be! What an inspiration it would be to some soul upon whom God has laid the responsibility to go to China, India, or to some other dark corner of the Master’s vineyard!
Arkansas
By J. W. Dancer
DEVALL'S BLUFF.—Elder M. Jones, our colored brother from Jamaica, whom the Southern Union Conference invited to come over and take the oversight of the colored work in its territory—the place made vacant by the death of Elder S. S. Ryles—visited the above-named place on the ninth of February, and spent more than a week with the church here, holding meetings every day. His instruction was much appreciated by us all.
Elder Jones took his children out of the public school when he accepted present truth, and as the only school for colored children we have in this conference is near Devall's Bluff, Ark., Elder Jones decided to make this his headquarters; but he was not satisfied with the prevailing condition of things. So while four of us colored workers and the church were together, we decided to hold counsel meetings for the purpose of developing some plans that would put this school on a better basis than heretofore.
About four years ago, the little church here made an effort to erect a small meeting-house. They leased forty acres of land with the privilege of buying it if they so desired during the term of the lease. On this land they built a small house for church and probably school purposes.
At the following General Conference a picture of this house was presented, and it stirred the brethren assembled to lend assistance to this very needy enterprise.
The Southwestern Union Conference purchased these forty acres which the brethren had leased, and built a schoolhouse on the land. But this is only a beginning. The school has been in session only from three to four months in the year heretofore, and the school land has not as yet been cultivated so as to yield any returns to the school. Believing we should do all we could to carry forward the work, we elected a local school board as follows: Elder M. Jones, chairman; J. W. Dancer, secretary, and R. R. Devereaux, treasurer.
Brother Devereaux agreed to cultivate a small farm this year on the school land, the profits to go into the school treasury. As there was no school fund to invest in this, we four—the above-named board, and the teacher, Prof. W. H. Swait—agreed to share equally out of our small earnings this year, whatever may be required to cultivate the school crop. I would say just here, if any one who reads this feels disposed to help us out, whether little or much, it will be highly appreciated. If any one is so situated that he could loan a few dollars without interest to be used in this way, it would be thankfully received. Such could send their donations to R. H. Devereaux, Devall's Bluff, Ark., stating that they are to be used in the interest of Vartan Springs Intermediate School. We trust this appeal will not be lightly considered. The work for the colored people here in the South is in a sad condition. They are more willing to do than they are often given credit for, but the trouble is, we are so poor we have no money to do with. But when we make an effort, as in the matter of this school farm, if we can receive a little help we will make a success, the same as any other race. Try us.
Now, we will need an animal to cultivate the land, and a mill to work up the sorghum we shall plant. There is no money in sight to procure these necessary things, but we have launched out by faith, and we believe the Lord will help us out.
J. W. DANCER, Secretary.
Korea
By W. R. Smith
SUNAN.—As we see the reports in the REVIEW, telling how the message is being received in other lands, we are anxious that all should know that the way has been and is being prepared for the truth to be accepted by many among the millions of Korea, who have so little to cheer or brighten their lives in this world.
All over the land are houses much better than those in which the people live. When we ask the Koreans about these, they tell us that they are spirit houses, and which spirits live in the different houses, and what is their work. Here at Sunan there are four such of considerable size, and several smaller ones.
The Koreans are also ancestor worshipers. In their homes they have their ancestral tablets, and before these they place their food, upon the days set apart for this worship. After leaving it there long enough, as they suppose, for the spirits of their fathers to eat what they desire, the family eat the food themselves.
But it seems that all these things have failed to satisfy, and they are reaching out for something better. Their confidence, to a very great extent, has been destroyed in the evil spirits they have worshiped heretofore, and they are beginning to realize that those things in which they have trusted are not able to help them. They are looking for something upon which to cling for support, and how we wish that now, just now, this message might be so sounded all over this land that every one might hear its saving truths in his own tongue.
The Korean language is divided into three dialects: that of the south, the middle, or Seoul, and the northern. Our work so far has been in the northern half of the peninsula. During the past year, five native laborers have been at work, and three new companies of Sabbath-keepers have been raised up, and four meeting-houses have either been built or purchased. There are several calls waiting to be answered, where some have heard of this truth, and have asked for some one to come and teach them further. Also, from the middle and the south come inquiring letters.
Certainly this is a needy field. About us on every hand we see a crying need for the medical branch of this work to be started. And surely from the middle and the south the Macedonian cry is sounding for some one to locate in those parts to give the message to the people in their own dialect.
We were glad to have Elder Prescott visit us, and to have Sister Scharffenberg connect with the work here. We are of good courage, and trust that during the coming year the message will continue to spread over Korea, and that those who have already identified themselves with it will learn more of its saving truths, and come up on higher and holier ground. Remember to pray for us. We feel sad and lonely sometimes, but have never felt that we would like to leave this field.
W. R. SMITH.
An Appeal for the Graysville Sanitarium
By E. W. Webster
I AM not making an appeal now for money for this institution, although it needs it, and this is not written at the request or with the knowledge of the sanitarium board; it is wholly a personal appeal, from a sense of gratitude for what has been done here for Mrs. Webster, for myself, and for others also, and because I feel it to be right and my duty to try to arouse each one who reads this to see the good he may do this institution and the cause of God by saying a few words for it to others.
This sanitarium is established and well fitted up not only to treat the sick, but to stand as a light to the world and to give a knowledge of the third angel's message to those who may be induced to come here. In the winter especially should this institution be filled with patients from the North, and in summer from the South. It is a good place for invalids from all parts of the country at all seasons of the year, with delightful mountain air in summer, and mild winters.
If all our people within reasonable distance would become acquainted with the place themselves, get really interested in it and its work, then do what they can with their neighbors and friends to get those who might be benefited by treatments interested in it and get them here, much good might be done. I appeal to you to co-operate with the managers and physicians to make the work of this sanitarium a success.
God has directed that this institution be built for the advancement of this precious cause, and through it people can be reached who could not be reached now, with this truth in any other way; but this work does not rest alone upon the managers and physicians. They can do their part; but upon our people in their homes rests the responsibility of bringing their neighbors and friends who can be induced to do so, and who need its benefits, into touch with this place, and perhaps with eternal life.
You are interested in your home missionary work, and in our foreign missions, and this is all as it should be: have you yet become really interested in this particular phase of missionary work and felt your responsibility to help this branch of God's work in the manner indicated? Send to the Graysville Sanitarium for information and announcements, and work for the advancement of18God's cause through this channel. Please do not wait; send at once.
What I have said of this institution applies with equal force to our other institutions and to our people living within their range of influence and operation. I believe all our people should do more for the upbuilding of these institutions in the manner indicated in this appeal. Will you not take hold at once to act on these suggestions?
E. W. WEBSTER.
The Work in Kansas
By R. C. Porter
The recent council of workers at Manhattan, Kan., embracing the directors of districts, the conference committee, the educational superintendents, the medical superintendent, and the State canvassing agent, was a profitable meeting. Reports from the workers showed good progress in nearly all parts of the field where meetings have been held. Our Bible workers have been meeting with good success also. The canvassing work shows a marked increase this year over last year, in the number of canvassers preparing to enter the field. The canvassers delivered between eight thousand dollars and nine thousand dollars' worth of books in the State of Kansas last year. They have set the mark at twenty thousand dollars for this year, and we hope they will be able to reach it. In book sales last year this State doubled the amount of the previous year. This year there will be three or four times the number of canvassers in the field. I am very much pleased with the way our canvassing work is progressing.
The Educational Department reports sixteen teachers, teaching sixteen church-schools, with two hundred and seventy-five pupils in attendance. Twenty teachers have already signified their intention to attend the teachers' institute to be held this summer in Kansas City, Kan. The educational secretary presents his plans of work as follows:—
1. To raise the standard of education higher among the teachers, and increase their efficiency in the schoolroom, in methods, management, and apparatus. To this end, (a) to conduct a model school in connection with the teachers' institute to be held this summer; (b) to establish more church and industrial schools, at least one to be German. These to be self-supporting centers for the development of workers for God.
2. To thoroughly organize our Young People's Societies by card membership, to be transferable to other Societies upon removal; and a State society for all the isolated.
3. To establish a circulating library of excellent books on different Biblical and historical subjects, nature study, biographies of godly men and women, mission fields, etc.
The educational work is in a very prosperous condition, and the present plans will develop a higher state of efficiency for both the educational and the young people's work.
The medical work has made a steady advance during the year, until it stands with double the patronage now that it had a year ago. A spirit of unity prevails among the workers. The institution has met all interest, insurance, and operating expenses during the second year, which is doing exceedingly well for a new institution.
The tithe has greatly increased during the past year, and the missionary spirit among the churches is gradually rising. To the Lord belongs the praise. R. C. PORTER.
British West Indies
By W. A. SWEANY
GRENADA.— Our quarterly meeting the last week in December was a blessed occasion. One more was added to the church by baptism. The reports showed an increase in tithe, also in the offerings from the Sabbath-school and the missionary and Young People's Societies. Somewhat more than the shilling a member, pledged at our last conference, was raised for the printing-office and the Jamaica school. Over one hundred copies of “Christ's Object Lessons” had been sold, and an increased amount of other literature was distributed.
December 31 we started for the union conference in Jamaica, being obliged to go via Demerara and Barbadoes,—a long, tiresome, rough voyage. However, it afforded us the privilege of a brief visit with our friends in those two colonies. With the rest of the laborers, we passed through the terrible earthquake experience in Jamaica, sharing with them the merciful deliverance which the kind providence of God wrought for his people. In returning, we spent eight days in Barbadoes, waiting for a boat to Grenada. This enabled us to visit nearly all our people there, and many other interested ones. Services were also held each evening, in which the different laborers set forth the cause, meaning, and lessons of these rapidly increasing, terrible calamities. Donations to the amount of $8.43 and a box of clothing were received for the Jamaica sufferers.
On reaching home, we found all well, although their anxiety concerning us had, of course, been very great.
We at once began holding open-air meetings in different places, sounding the message as emphasized by the convulsions of nature. Great throngs assemble, and stand for two hours or more, listening with deepest interest while we point out in the Scriptures the meaning of these things. In every place they urge us to come again and hold regular meetings. In fact, the whole island of Grenada is ready and anxious to hear this message. Meetings can now be held anywhere and everywhere with the best of attendance and interest. We are straining every nerve and working to the very limit of human endurance, but our strength and ability come so far short of meeting the needs of the situation.
We are to go eight miles to-night to hold the second meeting in Grenville, the second town in the island. We have meetings somewhere almost every night. When my wife begins to play the cornet, the people come from all sides, and soon several hundred are gathered. We seldom get home till after midnight. The people buy literature freely, as far as their limited means will permit, and we have received about fifteen dollars more for the sufferers in Jamaica.
We are just beginning work on our church building. We have waited all these weary months, slowly accumulating the necessary means, and still we have not enough, but we must make a beginning. We and our people here are doing all we can and giving all we have, and are asking God to send us the rest.
We closed our school before going to Jamaica, and can not start it again till our building is done. The enrolment had reached sixty. If some school, church, Young People's Society, or conference would send an earnest, efficient, consecrated teacher here, with at least partial support, more could be accomplished than in any other way. We invite correspondence with any one who may feel drawn this way. Our courage and faith are strong, and we pray and hope to be sustained and strengthened physically and spiritually to bear the burden and strain till the work is done.
W. A. SWEANY.
Mt. Rose, St. Patrick's, Grenada.
The Work in Bermuda Islands.
By M. Enoch
In justice to our dear people in the United States and Canada who have been sending us their means since my article in the REVIEW of Aug. 30, 1906, and in behalf of our brethren and sisters here, I would tender our sincere thanks for the donations which have been coming in to help liquidate the debt on our church building here at the capital. With the thirty dollars sent us by the General Conference treasurer a few days ago, we have received eighty dollars from abroad.
Though the church is unfinished, we have held our Sabbath meetings in it since last July. Since then the building has been completed, except the ceiling. The sight of the rafters and roof above does not detract from the sacredness of the place. Still, when the wind is blowing hard, we find it somewhat cool and drafty. But it will have to remain thus until we can finish it. The citizens are pleased with our neat, substantial building, which we know meets the approval of heaven, for we are told to build in that manner.
To those who would still esteem it a privilege to help us financially, I would say that to save the amount lost by exchange, you can send your money to the General Conference treasurer, Elder I. H. Evans, telling him that it is for the Bermuda church. Large amounts could be sent to me without discount, by draft on New York.
The work is onward here. Through the faithful labors of Elder Morrow, eighteen Portuguese have taken hold, and some of them have been baptized, and still others are interested. Then about five miles east of Hamilton, Brother Morrow started meetings last summer, in the open air, as there was no building available for the purpose. From fifty to one hundred would come out, and either sit on the ground or stand for one hour. But when the cold evenings came on, we decided to buy a tent, seating nearly one hundred persons. Since it was pitched, a number have accepted the truth, and hopes are still entertained for others. Since that time I have also been carrying on Sunday evening meetings at Hamilton, in the church. Though our congregations are not large, owing, no doubt, to the fact that people generally attend their own churches on Sunday evenings, still quite a number are interested, and come regularly; and this is a help to our brethren and sisters. Besides these, I have held one meeting a week, about two miles west of the capital, at the home where the mother took a stand for the truth, through reading the *Caribbean19Watchman*, sold her by our deacon. Then after a few meetings at that home, the father and a neighbor began to keep the Sabbath. There are six children in this latter family.
As the columns of the newspapers were opened to receive points of truth, I have spent part of my time in writing articles for them, and we have reason to believe that good is being done in this way. Thus I am engaged in the work as far as my health will permit; but to do this, I have had to give up a part of my business; however, my wife is carrying on the remainder of the business, and we are enabled to make a living.
The Jamaica earthquake filled the hearts of some with apprehension, and the question is already in the mind, Will Bermuda suffer in the same way? We can only reply that we do not know, but these islands must be warned fully of the coming of Jesus. It is thought by many that the reefs extending about nine miles on the north side of Bermuda, and which are near the surface, were once a part, in fact, the greatest part, of Bermuda, but that they were sunk by an earthquake.
Our brethren and sisters here are hopeful, and of good courage, and I am sure none of us desire to leave our post of duty. We are going to stand by the work. The time has certainly come when we need to enter more fully into the life of faith, where the presence of the Holy Spirit will be as real to us in the Bermudas as was the presence of the Saviour when, as a man, he lived in the land of Palestine. O, if we could only get rid of the sin of unbelief that hides from our view this same Saviour who is ever near us by the abiding presence of the Comforter which proceeds from the Father! May the Lord open our spiritual eyes as fully as he opened the natural eyes of the servant of Elijah! “O, for living, active faith! We need it; we must have it, or we shall faint and fail in the day of trial. . . . Now is the time to prepare. The seal of God will never be placed upon the forehead of an impure man or woman. . . . All who receive the seal must be without spot before God—candidates for heaven.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. V, pages 215, 216.
M. ENOCH.
Hamilton, Bermuda.
Missouri Conference Workers’ Meeting
By K. C. RUSSELL
This meeting was held in St. Louis, Mo., March 18-25, 1907. There were in attendance the regular laborers of the Missouri Conference, and a few of the church elders.
The forenoon and afternoon of each day were devoted to convention work, and each evening there was a preaching service. A variety of subjects were discussed, involving organization, Sabbath-school work, the work of our young people, church-schools, tithing, city work, camp-meetings, religious liberty work, etc. Papers were read upon these questions, and a lively and enthusiastic discussion followed the reading of them.
It was gratifying to note that notwithstanding the absolute freedom which was exercised by all in the discussion of the various topics, a spirit of Christian love and unity prevailed. The subject of organization was given special attention, not, however, because there was not implicit faith on the part of all on this question, but that we might again examine the grand pillars which underly the beautiful system of organization that God has given us.
The instruction given at such conventions, with the interchanging of experience, will tend to increase the spirit of unity, and thus will enable the laborers to instruct the churches and those who are just receiving the truth with a greater degree of uniformity on the various principles of this message. The result will inevitably be to keep out from among our people that spirit of independence so destructive to organization, and thus avert apostasies from the truth.
We believe that if every conference would conduct a ten days’ convention each year, in which they would canvass all the different phases of this message and discuss them freely, a more substantial membership might be brought into our churches, that which would not be tossed about by every wind of doctrine now blowing or yet to blow.
The evening services during this convention assumed very largely a revivalistic character. There was a very general response to every call made to draw nearer to God and receive of his Spirit. The Sabbath day of this meeting was one which will long be remembered. Some noble souls took their stand for the first time for Christ, and others who were back slidden returned to the fold.
Elder E. T. Russell, the president of the Central Union Conference, and Brother James Cochran were in attendance at the meeting during the latter part. We certainly believe that this convention will result in bringing a new inspiration to the workers of this important field.
K. C. RUSSELL.
South Africa
By M. C. Sturdevant
BULUWAYO.—We are glad to hear from the home field, and to learn of the progress there. The reports are cheering to us. And we can report only progress here. Our health remains good, though we become very weary at times with the amount of work for which we are responsible.
We are glad to say that help has been sent us. A young Brother Ellingworth, from the Claremont School, is here now, and is taking right hold. I have given him the larger share of the school work, so I can go into the field and help the ‘boys put in the crop, as our rains have come, and we can begin digging again. We have a little planted, and it is coming up. But swarms of locusts are in the country this year, and are coming this way. Before breakfast I went to the back of the field, and at the end of our peanut patch, just outside of the fence, were the locusts as the sands of the sea. They will be in the field before night. I tell you, the heart of man trembles in this country. What is coming next we know not. “Only we do know,” the Deliverer is “even at the door.” What more will it take to convince the world?
The natives are flocking to the mountains, with their beer and other things to offer to Satan, pleading his mercy, and begging him to remove the locusts. O we are slow to carry the knowledge of the true God to this darkened people! Last year it was not the locusts, but the drought. Nevertheless we had the best crop of any year since our arrival; and having had a good market this year, we have come out quite well. Our mission is out of debt, and to the present we have all our needs supplied.
Our school is doing nicely. There are as many children in the home as we can well care for, and a good spirit generally prevails. The church and Sabbath-school work are also onward, with a good attendance every Sabbath. Recently nine dear young men were buried with their Lord in baptism. It was a good day for us. After Sabbath-school we all went to the river two miles away, where assembled two hundred or more natives, Elder Hyatt, Brother Sparrow and family, with ourselves. Elder Hyatt and Brother Sparrow preached to the people, and I administered the rite. A good impression seemed to be left on all. We have never had a class better instructed than these, I am sure. They had had an opportunity to know just what they were doing. Many others desired to be baptized, but we thought it best they should wait a while longer.
We are glad to learn that Brother Branch has help. The tidings also from British East Africa cheer us. O the many places that should be opened! It seems we are so slow entering. Yet how thankful we are for what is being done. May God stir us to more faithfulness.
M. C. STURDEVANT.
Field Notes
THERE is a steady growth in interest at Flagstaff, Ariz. Brother J. Ernest Bond reports five recently baptized and united with the church.
AT the close of a series of meetings at Logan, Kan., conducted by Brother A. R. Ogden, five persons joined the church. The church now numbers twenty-five, and they are encouraged to hope that other interested ones will join them soon.
FOUR or five families have begun to keep the Sabbath at Quicksburg, Va., where Brother C. B. Rule has held meetings only about two weeks. He recognizes some of this fruit as the result of seed sown there by Brethren J. O. Corliss and E. B. Lane twenty-five or thirty years ago.
BROTHER JOHN S. WIGHTMAN, of Watertown, N. Y., writes: “I must revise my count of ten souls won for the truth here, and add seven, making seventeen in all—all from the churches and of excellent character. There is great rejoicing in the church here, and still greater in heaven, I am sure.”
FROM a recent Indiana Reporter we quote: “The meetings which have been in progress for some time by Elders Miller and Young at Seymour, closed March 17. The church was organized Sabbath, March 16, with nineteen members. Four of these united by letter, and fifteen upon profession of faith. Nearly all were those who had embraced the truth as a result of the camp-meeting, the continued work since the camp-meeting, and the recent meetings which have been held. We now have quite a substantial church organization at Seymour, and the outlook for the future is good.”
