Pennsylvania by John Lindsey; S. A. H. Lindsey

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 9, 1871

Pennsylvania.

By John Lindsey; S. A. H. Lindsey

MARCH 7, resumed our labors in Ulysses, after an interval of four weeks. We would be glad were we able to report greater success; still we do not consider the labor lost that we have given to the cause in this vicinity. Having sown in tears, we hope to reap in joy. Ps. 126: 5.

Since March 21, we have been holding meetings at the Kibbeeville school-house. Here we had some difficulties to meet. About half a dozen boys from twelve to eighteen years of age decided that we had no rights which they were bound to respect. We kindly remonstrated, and endeavored to show them the better way. We committed this trial into the hand of the Lord, and by his grace every insubordinate spirit seems bound in chains. Our congregations are large, quiet, and attentive.

This is an old field of labor. Twenty years ago the coming summer, Bro. Andrews and Edson brought the third angel’s message to us. A few received it; the majority preferred error. Since that time, the neighborhood has changed through the ordinary course of events—by deaths, removals, and younger members growing up, so that we have another class of hearers, and among them a full development of 2 Tim. 3: 1-8.

How long we shall be permitted to continue our meetings we cannot tell. There seems to be considerable interest on the part of some, and one has already decided to keep God’s commandments.

We ask the patient forbearance of the friends at Farmington and Catlin who have invited us to labor among them. We have been unable to leave the work here. With this report, we send out appointments, praying that the blessing of God may rest upon our feeble efforts to advance the cause of truth. JOHN LINDSEY. S. A. H. LINDSEY. Ulysses, Pa., April 27, 1871.