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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 22.

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NEW YORK.

By N. Z. Town

SOUTH RUSSELL.—At the close of the General Conference, Elder F. M. Wilcox, Mrs. Town, and I came to this place to visit our parents and other relatives and friends. The next evening after we arrived, we began holding meetings in the Seventh-day Adventist church. These continued with good interest over Sabbath and Sunday, when Brother Wilcox returned to his post of duty in Colorado.
For several years my parents have been quite interested in the truth, and before leaving Argentina I felt impressed that if I could come home and spend a little time with them in studying the truth, I should have the joy of seeing them accept it fully. After Brother Wilcox left, we held public meetings only on Sabbaths and Sundays. During the week we had Bible studies at father's and at my brother's. The whole family took a deep interest in these studies, and last Sabbath, which was my last Sabbath here, we had the blessed privilege of receiving into the church father and mother, my brother's wife and her daughter, and a neighbor's daughter. The two latter were received by baptism. The others had already been baptized.
How I have longed and prayed to see this glad day! For nearly sixteen years I was the only one of a large family, who kept the Sabbath. Last year a sister began to keep the Sabbath, and now my parents and these others have started. “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” This experience gives me new courage to return to the work in Argentina.
We have not forgotten the work in other lands while we have been here. The church here manifest a commendable interest in the work in the regions beyond. A relation of some of our experiences in Argentina by one who had grown up among them, seemed to bring the brethren and sisters into more direct touch with the work in that and other distant lands. They are fully determined to put into practice the ten-cents-a-week plan. May the Lord abundantly bless this church in its labors of love, and may He put it into the hearts of all the brethren and sisters in the Empire State and in every other State to adopt the plan that has been inaugurated to help carry on the work in the regions beyond.
May 21. N. Z. TOWN.