p. 253 | Failure to Meet by John H. Waggoner

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1868

Failure to Meet.

By John H. Waggoner

I WENT to Parma as appointed in Review, but the storm was so severe, and the water so high, that we could not get to Tompkins. We had good meetings on the Sabbath at Bro. Burwell’s. While examining the evidences of our faith, and the promises of God to sustain and deliver in the time of trouble, we all rejoiced in his goodness to his tried, but trusting people.

After the Sabbath, as it was yet storming very hard, I thought best to return to Battle Creek. So I got on a freight train, and went as far as Marshall where we were stopped by a break in the railroad. Next morning I walked to Bro. Barker’s, about six miles, and he brought me through with his team.

I did not go to Convis, as I could get no conveyance from here, and Bro. Byington informed me that the state of the roads was such that they would not go from Newton. Besides, it was judged best for me to spend the Sabbath at Battle Creek. I have since learned that Bro. Byington went; that the roads were not so bad as supposed; and his presence at the meeting was quite opportune, though the meeting was small in numbers.

I commenced to labor some in the third angel’s message in 1852, and these are the only appointments I have failed to meet. Had circumstances been under my control, I should probably have met these. I hope yet to meet the friends in Convis, if the Lord will.

J. H. WAGGONER.