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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 16, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 29.

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INDIANA

By O. S. Hadley

I HAVE been very busy, and have been blessed in my work. Since the special State Conference meeting of Indiana, I have been shaping my work to leave, in a good spiritual condition, those who have been uncertain upon some points, by reason of the error taught before the special Conference meeting. And as several had been waiting for the removal of error, they felt somewhat free to act, and three fully united with the church in Indianapolis. I have baptized four, one of whom came into the church some time ago, but until the action of our recent State Conference meeting did not feel free to go further, and was not baptized.
I recently visited the company in Logansport. We celebrated the ordinances, the brethren were of good courage in the message, and the Spirit of the Lord was recognized as present.
I intended to go from Logansport direct to Elkhart, my new field of labor; but by a special Providential hindrance I had to return to Indianapolis, where I found two sisters who were anxious to be buried with the Lord in baptism. So I administered the ordinance on the evening of July 3, at half-past ten o’clock, by moonlight. The scene was inspiring, and will long be remembered with pleasure. While waiting for the moon to rise higher, that the light of her full face might shine upon the clear, running stream, we sat upon the grassy bank, and sang sweet hymns of praise to Him who established the ordinance by the baptism of His own Son, by His appointed servant and prophet, John the Baptist, in the River Jordan. One of these sisters had been a member of the Catholic Church, but in the readings my wife had given her, she heard the sweet story of redemption. As she went down into the water and came up again, she was indeed happy as she realized that she had been translated from the power of darkness into this marvelous light.
My wife and I are of good courage in the Lord, and “know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” She is to remain here a little longer, while I go at once to open up the work in Elkhart. My address will be Elkhart, Ind., General Delivery. O. S. HADLEY.