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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 19, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 25.

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ILLINOIS

By J. F. BALLENGER

Apple River, Jo Daviess Co.—In company with Bro. and Sr. Hammond and my wife, we visited the friends in the vicinity of Hudson Mound, May 16, where Bro. H. and myself labored two years ago. At that time three sisters commenced keeping the Sabbath. As a result of their faithful example and the reading of the Signs, we found others ready to accept the truth. Eight were baptized. Eleven are keeping the Sabbath. One sister commenced keeping the Sabbath from reading tracts procured by her husband at the tent while Brn. Hammond and Colcord were at Scales Mound, she never having heard a sermon on the subject. This shows us that we should not be discouraged in sowing the seed, though we do not immediately see the fruit.
I shall continue to labor with these friends for a while, to more perfectly instruct them in the way of life, hoping also that others may be added to their numbers.
J. F. BALLENGER.