IOWA by R. M. Kilgore

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

IOWA

By R. M. Kilgore

Fonda.

My visit with this company of young believers was timely, pleasant, and profitable. I found them all firm and rejoicing in the truth. I enjoyed the precious privilege of speaking to them, and they relished the plain, practical duties set before them. The attendance of outsiders was good all the time; and judging from the kindness and generosity manifested by them, there is evidently a very friendly state of feeling existing toward the cause we represent, throughout the entire vicinity. Seven new ones were baptized, and received into the church, and two more were received subject to baptism.

The ordinances of the Lord’s house were celebrated for the first time here. But four had ever partaken of the emblems, and only two had ever witnessed the humble ordinance of feet-washing, yet all were blessed in the performance of this duty. Bro. M. Welsh was elected to fill the office of deacon, and Bro. N. R. Rigby was elected and ordained elder. R. M. KILGORE.