MARYLAND by R. F. Cottrell

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

MARYLAND

By R. F. Cottrell

I think I reported but very little interest at Calverton. Still, one has commenced to keep the Sabbath. I am now holding meetings at Woodberry, another suburban village of the city of Baltimore. Eld. Knight, a minister of an independent church, and the members of his congregation, receive us cordially, and are interested to hear. The prospect looks encouraging. Pray for the success of the truth here. The following notice of our work and people, I clipped from the Baltimore Sun:—

“Elder R. F. Cottrell, a minister of the Seventh-day Adventists, from Ridgeway, New York, is at present attracting much attention from the inhabitants of Woodberry and surrounding country. He lectures in Knight’s Chapel on the prophecies. His followers believe in the second advent of the Saviour, but do not undertake to set the time, though believing it near at hand. They strictly observe Saturday as the Bible Sabbath, and hold that the time is come for the proclamation of the promised message of Rev. 14:9-12 to be given as the closing warning of the gospel age. The elder claims that this country is clearly indicated in prophecy, and that we are to have no king and no pope. The Seventh-day Adventists believe in the press. They have two publishing offices, in Michigan and California, with power presses, and have a paper at Basel, in Switzerland. They publish in seven or eight different languages.”

R. F. COTTRELL.