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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 19, 1877

Rockford.

We have now been here three weeks and three days, and have spoken to the public thirty-two times, besides preaching four times more particularly to our brethren and sisters, and the friends who have met us in our Sabbath services. We have also enjoyed three social meetings. Yesterday, we held a business session in our family tent. Two names were added to the Roscoe church roll.

The time has fully come when we, as a people, should advance. We should be inspired by the spirit of the message, and all should be mantled with zeal as with a cloak. Let all along the line repeat the watchword, “Go forward!”

Last evening, Bro. Andrews enjoyed freedom in speaking to, as we estimate, six hundred, on the doom of the lost. We are agreeably surprised to find so many members of churches of this city fully established in the truth of the nature of man.

The Rockford correspondent of the Chicago Times has communicated several articles to that sheet concerning our effort here; and the prominent feature in these articles has been base misrepresentation. Last evening, while Bro. A. was speaking, I prepared an exhibit of some of the more prominent points of his foolish, scandalous compositions; and at the close of the discourse I read it to our large congregation. We are told that “Ithuriel,” the correspondent, was just before me. We requested all who regarded these communications to be fair and truthful to arise. All remained seated. We accused Ithuriel of falsifying, and gave all to understand that “we mean business.” We intend to clear away the fog more fully by writing to one or more of the Chicago papers, and thus meet this vilifier.

Last week three accepted the Sabbath, and pledged to keep it. For others we fondly hope.

R. F. Andrews.

G. W. Colcord.

Tent No. 3.

Our tent is pitched at Victoria. Last night, July 3, I spoke to a congregation of about sixty. The Lord helped greatly. Bro. Foster cheerfully helps us what he can.

Dennis Morrison.

Jefferson Co.

While laboring to support my family and to get out of debt, I have preached Sundays as the way opened. June 3, I spoke at Opdyke Station, on the St. Louis and South-eastern railroad.

I spoke in an adjoining neighborhood, June 13, in the Methodist meeting-house. The Methodists are friendly for the first time since I became a Sabbatarian. I am requested to speak here the fourth Sunday in every month for an indefinite time.

June 30, I visited the Keenville church. There was a good turnout. I gave a short practical discourse.

I listened to two sermons against the Sabbath, by Eld. Dickey, Baptist, July 1. I review him the second Sunday in August.

J. B. Logan.