Sandyville, Iowa by H. Nicola

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1872

Sandyville, Iowa.

By H. Nicola

By special request, I met with the church at Sandyville, and commenced meetings Wednesday evening, Feb. 21, and continued over the following first-day, holding, in all, nine meetings. Those who attended were much benefited. The meetings were solemn and heart-searching. It seems to me that, with many of our people who have been in the truth a long while, and have had much light, the spirit of present truth and real vital religion is at a very low ebb. What will arouse this class? The most heart-searching preaching seems to affect them but little. Will they not have to make individual efforts to seek God for themselves, and not wait for some compelling power to move them to action? If churches that have sunk down into a low state will, at a season of the year when they can, set apart a week or two and meet together, and pray for and exhort each other, and seek God individually for themselves, they will secure a benefit that they would not get by depending on a minister’s stirring them up to action.

I was happy to meet here Bro. Harvey Morrison, who has retired from the field for a time on account of poor health. His health is much improved, and I pray that he may be strengthened so as to soon go forth into the great harvest field again. The help he rendered in this meeting was much appreciated.

I went from here to Brighton, where Bro. Butler was to hold his last meeting in the State, for a time. This was a very important meeting, and God gave his servant great freedom in exposing the deceptive nature of the work that had been troubling them for a few weeks in the past, and also in bringing out those truths applicable to the occasion. H. Nicola.