Sigourney, Iowa by R. M. Kilgore

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1874

Sigourney, Iowa.

By R. M. Kilgore

MARCH 19–31, I spent with the church, and found the members much awakened by efforts they had put forth themselves, previous to this, in a series of prayer-meetings, and as a result of these efforts several were led to make a start in the service of God, and they also were prepared thereby to take advance steps themselves. While we endeavored to set before them duties of a practical nature, and the necessity of walking out on all the reforms connected with the message, we were encouraged to see a willingness to take that course which is so well calculated to separate the true child of God from the world. Here I was more convinced that the health and dress reforms sustained an inseparable relation to the third angel’s message.

The brethren and sisters were encouraged and strengthened by this effort, and were led to rejoice in witnessing another, a lawyer of the place, take his stand with the people of God.

The friends here will accept our thanks for their kindness to us during the sickness of myself and family. May God bless this church. R. M. KILGORE.