Report of Labor by E. B. Lane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 2, 1871

Report of Labor.

By E. B. Lane

MICHIGAN.

SINCE the General Conference, I have labored with churches in Johnstown, Convis, and Coldwater, Mich.

The brethren in Johnstown seem actively engaged in the cause, while some interest is awakening with others to hear.

With the church in Convis we enjoyed some excellent meetings. Their Sabbath-school and Bible-class are well sustained, and seem a great blessing to them. The blessing of God was with them, and large congregations showed an interest on the part of people without to hear.

The few Sabbath-keepers near Coldwater were in a discouraged condition from need of help. Their prayer-meetings were given up, while some had come to the conclusion that there was but little use in going farther. We held meetings day and evening with them, the evening meetings being quite well attended from without. On the Sabbath, the Spirit of God came into our midst in a wonderful manner. We all felt our cup of joy full to overflowing. It was a time long to be remembered by all present. Confessions of coldness and indifference were fully made, until discouragement passed away, and all wept for joy that God had returned to us again, and that we were not utterly cast off. We felt that we were strengthened to endure future trials and press on till we should be saved when Jesus comes.

TENNESSEE.

After a few days preparation, I came to this place, Edgefield Junction, near Nashville, Tennessee. Here are a few keeping the Sabbath who desire baptism. They embraced the truth from reading publications, having never heard a discourse from one of our ministers.

There is but one church (Catholic) in the place, and, as the school-house was small, we accepted an invitation to occupy the station and telegraph rooms in the depot building, the white people occupying one room, and the colored the other. These, however, soon became insufficient to accommodate the people. Accordingly the freight room was prepared, and the platform outside also seated before all could be comfortably entertained.

I have now given thirteen discourses which have brought me to the Sabbath question, which seems to be received without unusual opposition, and I look for some to embrace and keep it, with all God's commands. I will before long give my views in another article of the South as a field of labor.

Yours striving for eternal life.

E. B. LANE.