LABORS IN INDIANA by E. B. Lane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 23, 1869

LABORS IN INDIANA.

By E. B. Lane

At the close of our tent-meeting at Coldwater, as reported by Bro. Strong, we concluded to labor this winter in the State of Indiana. After spending a week at home, I came to North Liberty, and held a few meetings with the church in that place. They have a convenient, neat, and tasty house of worship, which is an honor to them, and an ornament to the place. The church there seem to be holding firmly to the truth, and I believe are trying to get nearer to the Lord, with something of a realizing sense of the times in which we live. They have been much neglected in the past as to ministerial labor, and seem to highly appreciate such when received.

From this place, I started for Spencer, Owen Co., but by request, I called on a Bro. Seward, who resides in Henry Co. I was surprised to find so many keeping the Sabbath in this place, as I expected to find but one or two families. There are quite a good many, so that a large Sabbath meeting is sustained. The wants of the cause have so much demanded labor in these parts, that Bro. Seward has, by the earnest requests of his friends and neighbors, gone into several places and explained the truth as best he could. The effects have been such as to create a great interest in the surrounding country. I spent the first week in fulfilling appointments which he had out in different places, and selecting a location to give a course of lectures.

I found a good opening about ten miles west of Kokomo, where I have been lecturing for nearly four weeks. I found some prejudice and opposition here, which soon gave away, and the congregation has been steadily increasing from the beginning. I had a Sabbath meeting with the people last Sabbath for the first time. The house was well filled, and, by vote of the congregation, we found that quite a goodly number of them were keeping that Sabbath for the first.

Quite a good many more, I think, will take hold of the truth, as they are most thoroughly convinced. There were none in this place when I commenced; so all are beginners. Enough have taken hold to sustain Sabbath meetings, and I sincerely hope and pray that they may hold on, and prove faithful. I shall continue here as long as it may seem duty.

There has been but a small amount of labor bestowed upon the people of this State, yet I believe many honest souls are here who will be saved at the second coming of our Lord Jesus. I ask an interest in the prayers of the people of God.

Yours in love of the truth. E. B. LANE.

Nov. 9, 1869.