Report from Ohio by I. D. Van Horn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 9, 1870

Report from Ohio.

By I. D. Van Horn

In my last report I stated that we had just pitched our tent and begun meetings in the little village of Rochester, Lorain Co., Ohio. We remained there a few days over five weeks. We gave forty-three discourses. In the commencement of the meeting the interest was good, but harvest and haying coming on, our congregations became quite small.

We had good freedom in presenting the truth, but the people were too much engaged in their worldly pursuits to follow out their convictions of duty. But I think our labor in that place has not been wholly lost. There are about ten now keeping the Sabbath, and nearly the whole community are convinced of their duty in this respect.

We closed our tent-meeting there on Sunday evening, the 17th. We have it now pitched in Troy Center, a little village about seven miles south of Rochester. What the interest will be here, we cannot now tell. Yesterday, Sabbath, I held meeting with the few in Rochester.

The Free Will Baptists cheerfully gave us the privilege of holding our meetings in their house of worship. For this they have our thanks. There were twenty at the meeting. The blessing of the Lord was with us, and I think good was done. We shall meet with them again next Sabbath.

Our P. O. address remains the same as before, Rochester Depot, Lorain Co., O.

I. D. VAN HORN,

Troy, O., July 24, 1870.