ONTARIO by F. D. Starr

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 11, 1901

ONTARIO

By F. D. Starr

It has recently been my privilege to visit Perth Road, Kingston, Belleville, Alderville and Peterboro. At Perth Road there are two sisters who began to keep the Sabbath a few years ago, before they ever heard of Seventh-day Adventists, being convinced of the truth by reading the Bible alone. One of these was arrested and tried for Sunday labor a few months after accepting the Sabbath. She pleaded her own case, showing from the Scriptures that Sunday is not the Lord’s day, and as

the law prohibits labor on the Lord’s day, she had not broken the law. She was sentenced to pay a fine or go to jail. As she would not pay the fine, and the neighbors and those concerned in the trial could not think of sending the young lady to jail, the sentence has never been executed, and she continues her Sunday labor unmolested. I preached three sermons in the Methodist church there; by invitation of the pastor, I used his time Sunday night.

Some interested neighbors of our brethren attended the meetings in Kingston and Belleville. We had a most encouraging season at Alderville, especially Sabbath afternoon, when the four Indians who have recently accepted the message there, mostly through reading, were baptized. At Peterboro the work is being revived by the addition of some members who have recently moved in.

F. D. Starr.