p. 166 | Belleville, Ohio by H. A. St. John

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1871

Belleville, Ohio

By H. A. St. John

Ohio.

FROM July 18th to Aug. 20, held twenty-eight meetings in the town hall in the village of Centerburg, Knox Co. Good average attendance. As usual, many are convinced of truth and duty, but the people in those parts are very slow to move. Only two expressed a determination to keep the Sabbath; but we hope for others.

Pitched the Ohio tent in the village of New Albany, Franklin Co., fourteen miles from Columbus, and commenced meetings on the evening of Aug. 25. Continued here till Sept. 18, giving, in all, thirty-one discourses. A good degree of interest was manifested at the beginning, which continued till the close. I did all the speaking. Congregations, at times, reached six hundred and upwards. Obtained twelve subscribers for the REVIEW and two for the Reformer, and left several good souls keeping the Lord’s holy Sabbath. We hope to return to them soon to finish the work as the Lord may give wisdom.

Sunday forenoon and evening, Sept. 24, held meeting in the town hall in Centerburg. Here is still a good interest to hear the glorious present truth. I was informed that two others had commenced to keep the Sabbath since I was there before. Obtained one subscriber for the REVIEW. There are others here who, we expect, will soon identify themselves with the commandment-keeping people of God.

We left Centerburg, Sept. 25, for the Ohio Camp-meeting at Mansfield, feeling that our labor, thus far this season, had not been in vain in the Lord. H. A. ST. JOHN.