p. 198 | Monroe, Iowa by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1871

Monroe, Iowa.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

COMING home, May 9, I staid there two Sabbaths. This is the first time I have been at home over the Sabbath for seven months. The church needs labor, which it should have had before; so we had meetings much of the time I was there. We felt to thank God for the results, which we think are good. All felt like making greater efforts to overcome, and to come up, and take hold of the whole truth. From the first there has been a reluctance with some to embrace the whole message; but I think they see the folly of this and feel the importance of obeying the whole truth.

We enjoyed some good meetings. Confessions were made, and differences harmonized. Four were baptized and added to the church. I spoke twice in a school-house three miles from town. We have by the help of God entirely lived down the bitter opposition which was formerly felt here against this people. Many are now willing to hear, and seem anxious to learn more of the truth.

I also worked a few hours each day among my small fruit. This privilege I enjoyed much, and felt greatly refreshed physically and mentally by such a recreation. But a little over a year ago there was not one tree or even a plant of any kind of fruit on my place. With but little expense and not much labor, I now have a few cherries, currants, gooseberries, blackberries, and grapes, besides many bushels each of both strawberries and raspberries. In another year we expect to have an abundance of all kinds. How much better this looks to me than to see the dirty swine running over the place! When such delicious fruit can be had so easily and so soon, it seems almost a sin for people to neglect raising it, as most of them do. All good health reformers should raise an abundance of fruit where they can.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

Altovista, Mo.