NORTH CAROLINA by Will L. Killen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1900

NORTH CAROLINA

By Will L. Killen

MEADOWS.—I came to this place August 23, and began a series of meetings in a grove. I met great opposition from the first. Three ministers did their best to prevent the people from coming. One wrote me up in his county paper, warning his people not to hear me, giving some points of our doctrine. This only advertised my meeting. I paid no attention to what they said, but preached the word. The people came in crowds to hear; so I am now known all over the county, and there are more openings than I can fill.

Two of the most influential men of this place have accepted the truth. One of these told his minister that he was breaking the fourth commandment. The minister tried to console him by saying that the nation changed it. “What right has the nation to change it?” the man asked. Of course the minister did not know. The man then offered his minister five dollars, and told him of another man who would give him one thousand dollars, for one text in the Bible which gave good authority for Sunday-keeping. The minister replied: “You are excited,” and bade him good-by. This was the minister who “wrote me up” in the paper.

The fourth minister with whom I had to deal was a Baptist, who came here to fill his monthly appointment. On his arrival, one of his leading members took a walk with him, advising him to pay no attention to the prejudiced words of the people regarding me; “for,” he said, “I have had this man at my house, and have heard him preach, and it is all Bible.” So the minister insisted on my taking the hour. I did so. The Lord came very near by His Holy Spirit, and this experience opened the eyes of many.

I am now holding meetings two miles from Meadows, at Wilsons Store. The people are busy, but not less than one hundred have attended regularly for thirteen nights. The house is small, but is full every night. Three have begun to keep the Sabbath, and I am sure others will soon follow their example.

I praise God for a part in His glorious work. The blessed Master has given me perfect freedom in delivering His message day by day, and my soul has been watered as it never was before.

The people here are anxious to read; and if any of you wish a part in this work, you may send me, post-paid, a large number of tracts, especially on the Sabbath question and the origin of Sunday. Pray for me. WILL L. KILLEN.