Untitled article by ISAAC SANBORN

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 15, 1867

FromThe Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 18

MEETINGS IN WISCONSIN.

By ISAAC SANBORN

AFTER attending the Convocation Meeting in Johnstown, which was the best meeting that I have ever attended in the Ill. and Wis. Conference, I have returned to my appointment in Cassville, Grant Co., Wis., and find the good work still progressing. People are still deciding in favor of the truth. Last evening the Methodist minister came out to hear, and after the discourse he challenged me for a discussion on the Sabbath question, for one evening, stating that he could tell all he knew or wished to say in that length of time. I told him that a hundred years' experience had convinced the Methodist ministers that public discussions were not generally promotive of good, which he acknowledged. I then told him that I would speak alternate evenings with him on that subject, which he reluctantly agreed to do some time in the future. We hope he will do it soon, because he makes some of the people hope that he will confirm the word; that is, he makes them hope that he can show them that Sunday is the Sabbath of the Lord. See Eze. xiii, 4-7; "O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying the Lord saith: [the first-day is the Sabbath.] and the Lord hath not sent them; and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word."

ISAAC SANBORN.

Cassville, Oct. 7, 1867.