p. 150 | Greenup Co., Kentucky by S. Osborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 23, 1872

Greenup Co., Kentucky.

By S. Osborn

At my last report I was preparing for a discussion with a Disciple preacher, which was to commence on the evening of the 9th of March. I went to the place appointed, but he did not come. The elder said the reason was they could not raise money enough for him, and by invitation I spoke to that church on Sunday on the subject of the penalty of God’s holy law. I showed that the penalty of God’s law was never inflicted in this life, in any dispensation; for there would be no use of the Judgment, unless God would punish the wicked twice for the same offense; which charge could not be made against God.

That God will bring all the people of this dispensation into Judgment, no Protestant will deny; but to prove that the people of the dispensations would be brought up in the Judgment, the following scriptures were referred to: Eccl. 12:14; Matt. 10:14-15; 12:21-24; 12:41, 42; 2 Pet. 3:7; Jude 14, 15. And that the penalty inflicted in the old dispensation, was only national for national purposes; and standing over against that in this dispensation, is the law of the land. Proof: Rom. 13:1-10.

As it became necessary for me to start home to Iowa by the first of April, I had not time to complete another course of lectures in one place, and as I was anxious to visit several places where I had been invited, to see the prospect for future labor, I did so; and, as far as my judgment goes, I think there are good openings for labor in this State.

Eleven Sabbath-keepers came out where I have been laboring in Greenup County, and left all their idols behind. If we had no other cross to preach but the Sabbath, there could be a great many converts made there; but their idols stand in the way most of all. There are, however, several more who I think will come out. Some told me that when I came back there again I would find them keeping the Sabbath. May the Lord give them strength and decision.

March 23, 24, I held meetings at Plumbfork with good interest, and on the 30th and 31st, at Springville. On the Sabbath, we had a social meeting. There were but few present; but the most of them gave testimony on the Lord’s side. Though they could say but a few words, it seemed to come from the heart. The Disciples, in this part of the country, teach all their members that it is very wrong for women to speak in church, and hence it is no small task to get that class of converts to the Sabbath to bear any part in the social meeting.

On Monday, the 1st of April, I started for home, where I arrived after an absence of twenty-four weeks, and found all well and happy in the Lord. Praise the Lord. S. OSBORN.