Report from Kentucky by S. Osborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1873

Report from Kentucky.

By S. Osborn

My last report was shortly after I arrived from Harden County, in May last, since which time, I have held only one regular course of lectures; no important results from it. As usual in this State, there is a general acknowledgment that we have the truth, and some are so zealous that they are ready to defend it by physical strength. There was a Disciple preacher came to Pine Grove, where I had been lecturing, after I left, and said some pretty rough things against me and the cause, and left another appointment; but when he came to fill it, the trustees had locked the door against him.

At the close of the meetings at Pine Grove, there were four willing souls buried with Christ in baptism, as we trust, to rise to walk in newness of life. We intended to organize a little church here ere this, but are waiting for some to develop themselves and to get ready, and also their scattered condition makes it very inconvenient.

My home duties and pecuniary necessities have caused me to labor with my hands, so I could not spend much time in the vineyard of the Lord. There are plenty of calls here for labor, and if we had a minister with proper gifts, there might be something done.

I am now holding lectures at the Hood’s Run school-house, as usual, to crowded houses, rain or shine. But what the results will be, God only knows. O brethren, help us by your prayers, for we need them.

S. OSBORN. Greenup Co., Ky., Aug. 6, 1873.