The Truth among the Deaf and Dumb.
Bro. E. M. KIMBALL, deaf mute, has written us quite a lengthy account of his experience in embracing the truth, and his efforts to teach it to others of that unfortunate class, from which we condense the following report. Bro. K. received his education in the Deaf and Dumb Institution, at Hartford, Ct., from 1831 to 1835. In 1852 he visited a deaf mute in Indiana, who told him that man did not possess an immortal soul, and gave him a pamphlet on the subject. He searched the Scriptures carefully on this point, and soon became convinced of the truth on the immortality question. He was at Anamosa, Iowa, in 1860, when Eld. M. E. Cornell gave a course of lectures there. At this time he procured some publications on the Sabbath question, and by carefully studying them and comparing them with the Scriptures, became satisfied that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, and commenced its observance. About 1868 he, with his deaf-mute wife, visited their two children in St. Joseph, Mo., and Leavenworth, Kansas, where they remained two years. Here Bro. K. lost his companion, who had observed the Sabbath with him for nine years and six months. Six months after this, he entered more particularly upon the work of searching up mutes in different States, and endeavoring to instruct them in the truths of the gospel. One who visited him in St. Joseph embraced the Sabbath, and two to whom he carried the truth in Southern Nebraska. He has since visited New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and the cities of New York and Brooklyn, being now at work in the State of Maine. Three mutes, in Connecticut, are keeping the Sabbath; and there are two others who desire to keep it, but are restrained by their parents who are Episcopalians. Three in Massachusetts, are observing the Sabbath, and others interested to learn more of these views. In New Hampshire there are five now observing the Sabbath. Bro. K. has been laboring in Maine since last spring; and while some are interested to learn about these things, others oppose, and do what they can to hinder their children or friends from embracing them. As any one can see, this must be a hard and laborious field; and he who has so zealously entered it, deserves the prayers of God's people. Bro. K. designs to spend the remainder of the season in Maine as the way may open. His address will be South Lancaster, Mass., care of S. N. Haskell, from which place all letters will be forwarded.