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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 25, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 21.

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TENNESSEE

By Orlando Soule

After becoming acquainted with the people by visiting from house to house, I commenced holding meetings in Bledsoe Co. the 19th of March, and closed them April 30. Have given in all thirty-nine lectures. Meetings were discontinued twice on account of bad weather, at one time for a full week; at another, only two days. When I had spoken twice from the prophecies, a person, without being provoked, came in and spoke against the Sabbath. I had freedom in reviewing him, and he said no more. A man that had burned tracts, and who held the offices of deacon and Sunday-school superintendent, came to hear and take notes, intending to review me. Upon going home and trying to arrange a review, he became much perplexed, and got but little sleep and no rest; after considerable time spent in this manner, he concluded that there was safety only in obedience. He is now keeping the Sabbath and using his influence, which is not a little, in favor of the truth. To the Lord be all the glory.
Twenty have signed a covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; if these are faithful and live as near to the Lord as they ought, there are a number that will soon join them. Presenting the truth here has been very laborious; the neighborhood is thinly settled, and the few books that I had in my trunk were at the railroad station forty miles away, so the work depended much upon my exertions, under God. In fair weather I spoke eleven times a week, and visited from two to six families each day, making a journey of from eight to twelve miles.
Urgent invitations are coming from all directions for labor. Eight neighborhoods now stand anxiously waiting for their turn to come. The Sequatchie Valley is from 3 to 5 miles wide and 65 miles long, and as far as heard from, the people are all awake to hear. I am now at Pikeville, a little village situated a little above the middle of this valley; have held two meetings with a very good attendance. Brethren, pray that the Spirit of God may set the truth home to men's hearts in this long-neglected part of the vineyard.
ORLANDO SOULE.