Report from Ohio by L. D. VanHorn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 4, 1870

Report from Ohio.

By L. D. VanHorn

ON Sunday evening Sept. 4, we closed our tent meetings in Troy. The next day we took down the tent and shipped it to Clyde to be in readiness for the camp-meeting. Our congregations were large and attentive to the last. The Methodist ministers labored to keep their members away, and they spoke against us with some severity; but it was more to their own injury than to ours. There was some talk on their part of a discussion, but they did not venture.

Our stay in Troy was a few days over six weeks. Many became convinced of the truths of the third angel’s message, but only a few, twelve I think, have resolved to live it out. Some do not keep the Sabbath because of their friends, and others are bound up with the world and its interests.

I remained in Troy a week after the tent was down, visiting from house to house, and held two meetings. On last Sabbath, the 10th, we held meeting in the town hall. The trustees of the town gave us the privilege of using it, and they have our thanks. About fifty were out to our meeting. The friends of the cause will continue to hold meeting every Sabbath.

Last Sunday I held two meeting in Rochester. The interest to hear is still good. Oh! that all who were convicted of their duty would move out and keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Then would they have joy in their hearts, and hope of everlasting life. L. D. VANHORN.

Norwalk, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1870.