MARYLAND, AND WASHINGTON, D. C.
By I. Sanborn
FROM Camden, N. J., I went to Calverton, Md., and held one meeting with the two Sabbath-keeping families now living there. The others have moved so far away that they cannot attend the meetings, but they remain faithful in the work of the Lord. I visited them all at their homes. Brn. Jones and Reed still keep up Sabbath-school and meetings, and their families are greatly benefited by these services. I next spent a week at Washington, D. C. Five are keeping the Sabbath here, one of whom never heard any preaching on the present truth. I spoke six times. Some of their neighbors attended, and all seemed to enjoy the meetings very much. Sister Dolton, who embraced the truth in Chicago over ten years ago, while I was holding a few meetings in the house of Sister Mills, is now with her daughter in Washington. Bro. Craig, a ship-carpenter belonging to the navy service, who embraced the truth under the preaching of Eld. Loughborough in California, is still faithful. Sister Hitchcock has kept the Sabbath several years. She has long desired baptism, and she and Sister Craig were baptized in the Potomac river. Bro. and Sister Craig have two daughters, and Sister Cook one, who desire to follow their Saviour in baptism. As they are young, I advised them to seek God and be faithful in the discharge of duty, promising to baptize them when I visited Washington again. Others are interested in the truth. These five Sabbath-keeping believers in Christ will hold meetings and Sabbath-school every Sabbath, and will do all the missionary work they can. Mr. Cook, though a member of the Episcopal church, was very kind, and took care to make me feel at home in his family; so also did Mr. Hitchcock, though a member of the M. E. Church.