p. 46 | CLINTON CO., PA by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 8, 1877

CLINTON CO., PA.

By R. F. Cottrell

For several weeks I have been laboring in German Valley near Lock Haven, the county seat. Though an entire stranger to them all, I have been received with Christian courtesy and hospitality. Have preached sixteen times, and visited nine families. Four have embraced the Sabbath, and many others are convinced of, and acknowledge, the truth, and it is evident that they will not get rid of their convictions till they embrace it.

This is a new field. Not one was keeping the Sabbath when I came, though one had become acquainted with it, chiefly by reading, and had engaged in enlightening others. And having such a one to lead, I have confidence that the work will not stop, but go on until the day of the Lord. Sabbath, the 27th, we celebrated the Sabbath for the first time here by meeting together. Had a good meeting. Several friends were present besides those who have begun to keep the Sabbath. Meetings are to be continued on the Sabbath and a Sabbath-school started.

Lock Haven is a city of some eight thousand inhabitants, as I am informed, and I have thought that it might be a good place for a tent company to operate the coming summer. I go from here to Baltimore, Md., where a hall is engaged for a course of lectures. That will probably be my address through the month of February.

R. F. COTTRELL.

Jan. 28, 1877.