Come over and Help Us by J. L. Jordan

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1875

Come over and Help Us.

By J. L. Jordan

Will some one of the preaching brethren of this State visit Smithland, Iowa, and hold a series of meetings here? The people are starving for the truth. We have had a course of lectures on the prophecies here this winter by Bro. Bartlett. Twenty-eight signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

We have social meeting and Sabbath-school every Sabbath. The M. E. presiding elder attended our Sabbath-school a week ago yesterday. He took exceptions to our position on Daniel 12:1, that Michael was Christ, declaring in his sermon that evening that such a position was blasphemous, base, low, and sacrilegious. He earnestly entreated the people not to listen to such blasphemy. He then attempted to prove the change of the Sabbath to be of divine authority from the following scriptures: Isa. 11:10; Heb. 3:18, 19, 4:1-10.

J. L. JORDAN.

Woodbury Co., Iowa. Feb. 1, 1875.