GERMAN SABBATH-KEEPERS IN TENNESSEE.
By E. B. Lane
Last summer while laboring in Newport, Page Co., Va., a man entered the tent, sanctioned the discourse all the way through, and remained till after the congregation had broken up. While in conversation with him we learned that he had walked thirty miles to hear us preach, his home being in Madison Co., Va. He seemed to be acquainted with the general tenor of the Advent doctrine, Sabbath, &c. He said he was a Sabbath-keeper, that his wife, a German lady, now deceased, was raised a Sabbath-keeper in Tennessee, and that he had observed it with her since their marriage. He also stated that his wife's father, now living near Knoxville, Tenn., observed it, also that there was a church of forty or fifty members, who have a house of worship and regular Sabbath meetings. We obtained the name and P. O. address of his father-in-law; and during the past quarter, one of the members of our T. and M. society has written to him, and received a reply from which we extract the following:— “. . . I was born in Germany. Came to this country in 1833. Was taught to observe the Sabbath of the Lord when fifteen years of age by my parents, which I have endeavored to do since that time until the present; and I hope to continue to do so, until I shall be gathered home ‘where congregations ne’er break up and Sabbaths never end;’ and that will not be long, for I now am seventy-two years of age.” The writer then expressed his desire to learn more of the doctrine of the Judgment. We give these items thinking that perhaps brethren laboring in Tennessee may learn more of this company, and open the way to find others in Germany, who keep the Sabbath, who may yet be unknown to Bro. Andrews and our brethren there.