Georgia by H. F. Courter

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1903

Georgia

By H. F. Courter

THE readers of the REVIEW will be interested no doubt in the progress of the work in the great Southern State of Georgia. About two and a quarter million of people are here waiting to be warned by the closing message. We have only one ordained minister, besides myself, working among the white people of this State and only one minister laboring for the colored people. April 19 we organized our first colored church in Georgia, to be known as the Second Atlanta Church of Seventh-day Adventists. About thirty colored people are keeping the Sabbath, fifteen of whom were organized into a church.

Through the labors of Brother J. T. Eaton several have become convinced of the Sabbath and other points of our faith. Two of these men are planning so to arrange their work in the fall that they can keep God's holy day. The wife

of one of these men is keeping the Sabbath, on account of which she is suffering great persecution from her father and mother.

Our work in Savannah has not produced great visible results. Two souls have been baptized, and others are interested. But who can place an estimate on the value of one soul? “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Such love is too wonderful for my comprehension.

“There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in his justice, Which is more than liberty.”

“For the love of God is broader Than the measure of man’s mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind.”

H. F. COURTER.