ST. ANNE AND KANKAKEE, ILL.
Bro. Morin writes respecting his meetings among the French in these places:— My meetings in St. Anne have been very well attended. I have also held a very good Sabbath meeting a few miles from Kankakee. In Kankakee there were present two Frenchmen, a father and his son-in-law, who do not keep the Sabbath, but they avow their belief that it is the right day. Their hearts were touched in that meeting. The father grasped my hand with emotion, and wished me much success in the conversion of sinners. I think we shall count soon two brothers more, and perhaps with them their families. I pray the Lord to enlighten them. The Protestant ministers whom I meet are treacherous, denying to-day what they have for years preached for the edification of their churches, for the purpose of resisting the truth. I know a first-day Baptist minister who has lost many members of his church by the violent opposition which he has made, and continues to make, against S. D. Adventists. He had formerly preached obedience to the word of God, also obligation to keep Sunday, and obedience to the law of God. Now he preaches to fight against the present truth. He said that in order for a religion to be holy and just it must have for its basis not only the Bible, but also the learned men; that is, the fathers of the church. Secondly, he denied the necessity of keeping a special day, leaving to man's discretion the choice of a day, provided it is one day in seven. Thirdly, he taught that the immutable law of God was abrogated at the cross; also even giving to understand that God had not written with his own finger the ten commandments on the tables of stone. Most of the members of his church, perceiving his hypocrisy, have left him. Several of his flock have become Adventists, and have embraced the truth which their minister rejects. Some of them are held by the ties of the world. May they break them soon and enter the field of the Saviour. In St. Anne I met a French lady who told me that she remembered, in her childhood, having heard of people who lived at Soligny, at the foot of the Jura mountains in France, who kept the Sabbath. These persons were not Jews, but Christians; this was about sixty years ago. The village is not far from Switzerland. There is much work to be done here, but I am of good courage. I pray God to help and not forsake me.