The Gospel in Grant County
By S. H. Vedder
Sr. S. H. VEDDER writes from Grant Co., Wis: I am living in a neighborhood where three churches have gone down, namely, the Methodist, Freewill Baptist, and Calvinistic Baptist, eight miles from any meeting of worship. I have attended two Quarterly Meetings among the Seventh-day Adventists at the new meeting-house in Waterloo, Grant Co., and have heard some preaching. I have become convinced on the Sabbath question, and am investigating with interest other points of doctrine as taught by them, and am blest in so doing. I have longed for some one to give a course of lectures in this place; but the doors are locked. Some pray for revival, and for the Lord to send by whom he will; but when an Adventist offers to come, the doors are locked. They are like a dog in the manger who cannot eat the hay himself, and will not let anybody else. They have heard the commandments of men so long, preached for doctrine, that if a person offers to preach anything else, he is shut out. Oh! that the gospel of Christ may shine forth in all its native purity in this place, is my prayer. I have been a Freewill Baptist over thirty years; but I never have seen so much of the Spirit of Christ manifest, as I have seen among the Adventists, the few times I have been permitted to meet with them.