p. 27 | FRANKLIN CO., IOWA by G. V. Kilgore

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 25, 1877

FRANKLIN CO., IOWA.

By G. V. Kilgore

MEETINGS began in Hampton Jan. 11. The opening is not very favorable. Other meetings are being held, and the weather is cold and sometimes stormy. I should not have begun at this time had it not been that the brethren here, while I was away, wrote me that the people expected meetings by the 10th of January. I did expect to begin about that time, if the way should open, but did not want the announcement made until near the time.

But under the circumstances, I think we have a fair hearing. Last night I first offered pamphlets for sale, and sold $1.55 worth. I hope the zeal of the brethren will be rewarded, and their expectations realized.

Jan. 5-7, I met with the church of Marshalltown, and spoke five times. The brethren had been made sad by a Methodist preacher's account of the Adventist people, and his miserable misrepresentation of God's holy Sabbath. He declared that God, at Sinai, gave the Hebrews the sixth day of creation, thus making God a liar. But all are still firmer in the truth than before. We had a good social meeting on the Sabbath. G. V. KILGORE.