Report from Ohio by I. D. VAN HORN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1870

Report from Ohio.

By I. D. VAN HORN

I LEFT home on Thursday, May 19, to commence labor in the Ohio Conference. My first meeting was at Clyde, on Sabbath and first-day. At this meeting I gave three discourses, had one good social meeting, and one business meeting. We had freedom in declaring the truth, and the influence throughout the whole meeting was good. Under the zealous and judicious labors of Bro. Guilford, this church is making some advance in the cause of truth. May they go on unto perfection.

We appointed meeting for the following Sabbath at Fremont, as there were some who wished to be baptized. In the meantime I visited Norwalk to see about a place for pitching the tent. I also visited Townsend, where I held meeting last winter, and found a few holding on to the truth. Enjoyed a good meeting with them.

We were all blessed and much encouraged by the good meeting we enjoyed at Fremont on Sabbath, May 28. Following the meeting we went to the river where five were buried with their Lord in baptism. We were glad to meet with Bro. Mears and Smith at this meeting. The next day we again visited Townsend and enjoyed a good meeting with them. While here we had evidence of the blessing of the Lord in counseling with the Conf. Committee relative to tent operations, the condition of the cause, and camp-meeting.

It was decided that I should visit Melmore, where we had the tent last season, before going out with the tent now. Accordingly I went there and spent nearly a week with them. I found most of the friends there holding firmly to the truth, but a few were some discouraged.

Our meeting served to arouse the desponding ones, and to give encouragement to all. On the Sabbath, June 4, we enjoyed a good meeting. Following it we went to the river, and seven put on the Lord Jesus Christ by being baptized. On Sunday morning the little company entered into a written agreement to sustain meetings among them, and to help each other on in the Christian life. Fifteen attached their names to this agreement, and there are a few more, who were not present, that will do so. I feel that my visit with them was timely, and that much good was done. May they now, by the help of the Lord, go forward till they reach Mount Zion.

Last Monday, the 6th, we started to find a location for our tent, and we now have it pitched in the little village of Rochester, Lorain Co., Ohio. This is on the Cleveland and Columbus R. R., about twenty miles S. E. of Norwalk. We have had three meetings, but the weather is very wet and cold so that but few come out. Though at our first meeting, about 150 were present. Pray for us. I. D. VAN HORN.