Berea, West Virginia by J. O. Corliss

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 10, 1883

Berea, West Virginia.

By J. O. Corliss

WE have just closed a two week's meeting at this place, which resulted in the organization of a church of eleven members, the formation of a Tract and Missionary Society of ten members, and a promising Sabbath-school.

These people were in a body cast out of another church for holding the peculiar views cherished by Seventh-day Adventists. Their attention was first called to these views by reading matter sent them from Massachusetts by former neighbors. This was followed up two years ago by some ministerial labor, and now they rejoice in the path of truth so plainly marked out in God's word for the last days. Thus another church, whose motto is "The commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" is planted among the hills of West Virginia, from which point we hope the light of the Third Angel's Message shall emanate till the Lord shall come.

J. O. Corliss.