Cornville, Maine by J. B. Goodrich

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1871

Cornville, Maine.

By J. B. Goodrich

Of late, I have been holding meetings in Cornville. About twenty have taken up the cross, and started to serve the Lord. Some are children of Sabbath-keepers. Others never kept the Sabbath before. A number of backsliders have been reclaimed. A good work has commenced, and I hope it may progress until others are brought in. Many are convinced that we have the truth. May the Lord help them to obey, and keep all the “commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” It rejoiced my heart to hear the brother who was clerk of the Christian Baptist church in Cornville (when I was a member of that body), give us a sketch of his experience and take his position to keep all the commandments of God, and declare that from that day, Dec. 31, we might set him down as a seventh-day Sabbath-keeper. Others commenced to keep the Lord’s Sabbath for the first time. As it was the last day of the year, 1870, and the new year was about to be ushered in upon them, they decided to keep all the commandments of God, that they might have a right to the tree of life, and be saved in the kingdom of God. Bro. Stratton is free, and taking hold well. I hope to see the cause rise in Maine. The truth never looked clearer and more precious to me than now. The third angel’s message will finally triumph. May the Lord increase my faith in this work. Pray for the cause in Maine.

J. B. GOODRICH.

Hartland, Jan. 16, 1871.