IOWA by George I. Butler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1879

IOWA

By George I. Butler

Mt. Pleasant.—The district quarterly meeting at Mt. Pleasant, April 12 and 13, was a good time for those who attended it. Several were present from Bentonsport and Bonaparte. The Lord blessed the word spoken, and hearts were melted in tenderness before God. On Sunday five new members were received into the Mt. Pleasant church. Six were baptized by Bro. Washburn, part of whom were from the other churches mentioned.

Among the persons baptized were several very interesting cases. One was that of a sister born in Norway, who has given herself to the care of the insane for some twenty years past, some of the time in Norway, and for quite a number of years in the Insane Asylum in Mt. Pleasant, until completely broken in health. Becoming acquainted with a family of our people, she embraced the truth, and was baptized. She was in feeble health, and her friends feared it would injure her to be baptized. She came up out of the water with her face beaming with pleasure, and without the slightest injury. Another case was that of Sister Martha Ashbaugh, eighty-four years of age, who embraced the truth twenty-three years ago by reading. Two papers accidentally fell into her hands, and attracted her attention. She has since taken the REVIEW every year, and has kept the Sabbath alone all this time. She had never seen but two Sabbath-keepers till last fall, and had never heard a sermon until that time. She spent several years in Montana. She has remarkable use of her faculties for one of her age. It was truly affecting to see one so aged following her Lord in baptism.

God blessed our meeting to the good of all our souls. To his name be the praise.

GEO. I. BUTLER.

Battle Creek, Mich., April 18, 1879.