MEETINGS IN ILLINOIS by T. M. Steward

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 3, 1869

MEETINGS IN ILLINOIS.

By T. M. Steward

AFTER laboring through the winter in Illinois, I went North after my family, and since May I have labored in the same places where I labored last winter. Some thirty had embraced the truth, and they had kept up meetings every Sabbath while I was gone. Some have moved away, others have given up, while others have come in. So there are now about twenty who attend the Sabbath meeting.

Sabbath, July 24, nine were baptized, and others are only waiting to see their duty more plainly. Nearly all of these are persons who had previously made no profession. I intend to labor in this vicinity until Conference.

I want to live more consecrated than ever. I feel the need of a deeper work of grace in my own heart. I hope we may never be guilty of lowering the standard erected in God's word; but to faithfully elevate the standard, and by constant and humble consecration strive to come up to the mark (perfection), for the prize (eternal life). Oh, that the little remnant of my life may be spent in the service of God as a faithful servant! May the Lord help me in the work of preparing for the Judgment.

The Lord will bless his people and his cause. He will take care of the remnant, and see that they are safely conducted through the perils of these last days. Dear brethren, let us be faithful in this great work.

Yours, hoping for deliverance soon, T. M. STEWARD.