p. 150 | INDIANAPOLIS, IND by Arthur W. Bartlett

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 19.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

By Arthur W. Bartlett

Having poor health, and being somewhat embarrassed in my financial affairs, I concluded to abandon preaching for a time, and to accept a position as teacher in a public school until I could extricate myself from debt. Meanwhile I have circulated thousands of pages of tracts and improved several opportunities to bring the matter before the people, yet never by a course of lectures; none having been given on the Sabbath as yet in this city. The fruits are beginning to appear. An excellent family have embraced the truth, mainly through reading matter furnished them by my mother.

I presume the first Sabbath meeting ever held in the city by Christians was held last Sabbath. There were eight present, five of them adults, and the Lord was with us. This is encouraging to us; for only a few months ago no Sabbath-keepers were found in the city, and we consider this meeting the nucleus of a prosperous S. D. A. church.

I shall begin my public labors in behalf of the truth as soon as my school closes. This is a city of 110,000 inhabitants, and we fully realize the effort which must be put forth on our part to deliver the third angel’s message. ARTHUR W. BARTLETT.

1066 N. Illinois Street.