TENNESSEE by Orlando Soule

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 17, 1876

TENNESSEE

By Orlando Soule

About the time of my last report, word was circulated that I must leave the country or I would be disposed of some other way, and then Sabbath-keepers would have to give up their foolish notions, as they are called, or they would share the same fate. All things considered, I thought it my duty to remain with the brethren until things were more quiet. While thus waiting, many events occurred which show clearly that we are far advanced in the work of the third angel's message; and that the two-horned beast, now a hundred years old, is laying aside the innocency that made him so great; and his subjects stand ready to stain their hands with the blood of persecution.

Among the many incidents that might be told in proof of this, I will relate one. One Sunday, while at a private house writing, and knowing nothing of it until it was past, a mob, composed of professors and worldlings, visited a house of worship where they thought to find me. Being disappointed, they inquired for me, and were told that I was at another place, three and a half miles away. They immediately repaired thither through a drenching rain, to be again disappointed. If men will do such things now, without the sanction of law, what may Sabbath-keepers expect in the near future, when the laws will be framed to uphold these opposers in their work?

While thus detained I had a severe attack of fever and ague, which made my stay longer than I had intended. I am now able to visit some, and expect to enter a new field soon. Brethren, pray for the work here.

ORLANDO SOULE.