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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 5, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 12.

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Harrison County, Iowa.

By R. A. Jays

Bro. J. Bartlett came to this place on Friday, August 4, and on Sunday afternoon commenced a course of lectures at the Wakefield school-house. He lectured every night until Sabbath evening. On Sunday afternoon he gave a lecture on the subject of the Mark of the Beast, to a large and attentive congregation. He continued his lectures evenings, through the week, until Thursday, having given in all thirteen discourses.
He was then obliged to close, and attend the monthly meeting. On the last evening he took a vote on the Sabbath question, when fifteen adult persons arose to their feet in favor of the Sabbath (two who were not present having acknowledged it before, there were in all seventeen); while in favor of Sunday, only two adults and a few boys arose. The people are very much interested to hear more of these truths, which are all new to many of them. A Universalist minister gave one discourse on the evening Bro. Bartlett did not lecture, trying to prove that the second coming of Christ was at the destruction of Jerusalem. Bro. Bartlett reviewed him on Sunday night, and showed clearly that long after the destruction of Jerusalem the second coming of Christ was spoken of as being still in the future.
A young minister in the church known as the Christian Union, came out on the Sabbath. We feel to thank God and take courage that the cause of truth is gaining ground in this western country.
R. A. Jays.