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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 11, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 41.

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Georgia

By Arthur L. Manous

DALTON.—This is a place of about five or six thousand inhabitants, and is located one hundred miles north of Atlanta, Ga., and forty miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Oct. 4, 1905, Elder W. W. Steward, his wife and little son, of Boise, Idaho, and my wife and I came to this place to introduce present truth. We began by canvassing the town and its vicinity for “Daniel and the Revelation” and other books.
Soon, however, Elder Steward began house-to-house work with The Family Bible Teacher, which has proved a very good way of presenting the three angels’ messages.
But, owing to poor health, Elder Steward and his family left us after about four months’ work, and then we took up the house-to-house work, which he had started. This was our first experience in this kind of work. The Lord has blessed us, and has enabled us to place a full set of The Family Bible Teacher in more than two hundred homes, and to make many friends. But before we had finished our course of readings, he had impressed two honest souls with the importance of keeping all the commandments of God. These two had bought and read “Daniel and the Revelation,” which helped them to take their stand for the truth.
About this time Elders R. M. Kilgore and Geo. W. Wells, and Brother and Sister M. L. Woodall pitched a tent for a four weeks’ meeting, which was well attended by an intelligent and attentive congregation.
We now have a Sabbath-school of eight, and are holding Bible readings with several interested families. I think some of these will soon take their stand for the truth.
Of course we have had some opposition from the preachers, there being about twenty white and fifteen colored ministers in and near this little town. But it has only caused the honest and thinking people to think more, and to watch as well as pray.
Just here I wish to thank those who have sent me literature for the work here. I could use much more, and hope to continue to receive good, clean copies of our papers, post-paid. These papers and tracts are doing good.
ARTHUR L. MANOUS.