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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1881

FROM THE FIELD.

IOWA, Fontanelle, Adair Co.—We have taken down our tent to-day. We came here July 5, and have given fifty-five discourses. Sold $12.00 worth of books, and received $15.00 in donations. Fourteen have signed the covenant. We hope for some others. Bro. Hollenbeck has been with us the past two weeks, and has rendered efficient help. We pitch our tent six miles west for future labor.

Keota, Keokuk Co., Sept. 6.—Closed our meetings Sunday evening, Sept. 4, after over ten weeks of constant labor. Sixteen have signed the covenant. We organized a Sabbath-school of about thirty members, and think the number will increase.

A tract society of ten members was also organized, and we hope for good results as the people are earnest workers. They are instructed in all the branches of the work, as well as in all the points of our faith. Seven copies of the Review, ten of the Instructor, and eleven of the SIGNS make up the list of periodicals visiting this company. One drawback is that they have no permanent place to hold their meetings, yet we think this will not be in the way long. Our expenses have been quite heavy, but the donations cover them all. The opposition has been blind, unreasonable, and persistently bitter, yet very many are friendly to us and wish us well.

PENNSYLVANIA, Youngsville, Sept. 5.—Bro. J. G. Saunders reports: The interest here has been good from the first. The attendance is not large, but those who do come attend regularly. Although this is a place of seven hundred inhabitants, when we came here there was only one church organization in the place,—a Methodist Episcopal church. Repeated efforts had been made to effect another church organization, but they had all failed. The people seemed to be established, and it was hard to move them. But from the first they have been very kind and generous, supplying nearly all our wants.

We have held eighty meetings, and have organized a church of twenty members, all of whom are adults. This church takes the name of S. D. A. church of Youngsville, Warren Co., Pa., and includes the scattered Sabbath-keepers in this vicinity and those who have embraced the truth here. Fourteen of these were baptized in the beautiful stream called Broken Strand, some over four hundred witnessing the ceremony. It was an affecting scene to see six persons over fifty years of age take up the cross, and follow their blessed Saviour.