REPORT FROM BRO. SANBORN.
By I. Sanborn
I HAVE now spent four weeks in Burnham’s Valley, La Crosse Co., Wis. Have preached thirty sermons in two adjoining districts, among the first-day Advent people and their neighbors. There is much interest, and many are convinced of duty, and would no doubt obey at once, but for a report in circulation that one of their ministers is coming to set things all right again, which is causing the people to hope that he will confirm the word. See Eze. xiii, 6. So everything this week is at a stand, but the Lord will soon bring this counsel to naught. It is now a critical time with this people here. I invite all who have an interest at the throne to pray the Lord to break the spell of the enemy, and deliver the people. There has been one decision in favor of the truth by Bro. David Downer, one of the Advent preachers, a young man about 27 years old, of good influence, whose heart seems to be deeply imbued with the importance of giving himself wholly to the work of the ministry. I hope the Lord may make him a truly humble, devoted, and successful laborer in this last message. I. SANBORN.