Report of the Late Marion Quarterly Meeting.
By H. E. Carver
BRO. WHITE: I esteem it a pleasant duty to give the church at large, through the Review, a report of our late Quarterly Meeting at Marion, Sept. 15–17. Notwithstanding the busy season of the year, there was a goodly delegation of brethren and sisters from Fairview, Lisbon, Tipton and Toledo; among them one of our Seventh-day Baptist brethren, who came out fully into the light of present truth recently under the labors of Bro. Snook. We were disappointed in not seeing or hearing from Bro. Ingraham. His absence placed the whole burden of preaching on Bro. Snook, who, considering his home duties, and also his peculiar connection with the Iowa Conference, felt himself to some extent disqualified to bear the burden; but it became evident from the first that the Lord did not mean he should bear it alone, but aided him in presenting some of the most heart-searching truths, both to believers and unbelievers, that I ever heard; and I verily believe that eternity will develop some good fruit resulting from this meeting. On the last evening our meeting-house was well filled, mostly with citizens of Marion, who listened with great interest to a long, but excellent argument on the perpetuity of the law of God, special reference being had to the fourth commandment; and we have heard of one citizen’s declaring that he will never violate another of the Lord’s Sabbaths, nor keep another Sunday. Others also we hope will see it duty to do the same. Our prayer and social meetings were seasons of special interest, the brethren and sisters all seeming to realize the presence of the Holy Spirit among us and in us, and testified to their unshaken faith in the great leading truths that distinguish us as a church. All, so far as I know, were strengthened and refreshed, and departed for their homes with renewed determinations to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, that at last we may be permitted to enter the pearly gates and walk the golden street of the New Jerusalem, and pluck the fruit of life’s fair tree. Let us continue faithful, my brethren and sisters, to the great truths of the third angel’s message, and at last our Lord will honor us with a place in his everlasting kingdom.