p. 101 | QUITMAN, GA

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1877

QUITMAN, GA.

The following from Bro. C. O. Taylor was delayed, and although written Aug. 22, did not reach us in season for the Progress Department:—

New places in which to speak the truth are opening. Last Monday I went ten miles, to meet an appointment that had been out four weeks. On reaching the meeting-house about noon, my first thought was that the appointment would be a failure, there being no other house in sight on account of the woods. I learned, also, that the hour was three P. M., a busy hour, and on the first laboring day of the week. Surely, thought I, we shall have our labor for little. But to my surprise, some time before the hour the house was well filled, and when meeting commenced every seat was occupied, and some were outside. I closed at five.

Although the weather was warm, and some of the seats had no backs, there was the best of attention and order. I remarked to one who had come ten miles, that the meeting had lasted two hours. Said he, It did not seem an hour. Then if our brethren could see with what eagerness they reached out, and even crowded, to get an old back number of the REVIEW or SIGNS, they would send more. I was not going to leave another appointment. But they called for it. I left one for the third Monday in October, at two P. M.

I go next week about two hundred and forty miles toward the center of the State, to visit a family that has been keeping the Sabbath for several years. I shall look for persons that I think would be benefited by reading. If any of our T. and M. workers wish to send the SIGNS to such, on trial, they will please inform me, and the number of names they wish. Reading matter is doing much in the South in calling the attention of the people to the message. Sixty or seventy families are reading the SIGNS. Hundreds have read the REVIEW, and are learning, for the first time, that there is such a people as Seventh-day Adventists. All Adventists have been classed together. They have not been known as separate bodies.

I think all this southern soil is as ready for the present truth as it ever will be. I look for no more opposition here than in other parts of the field. What is most needed is tents to go into the villages. The preaching and singing are so new and different that the greater part are much interested. The best time of the year to hold tent-meetings would be from the first of October to the first of May.

This field is large. I am but a drop in the bucket. Come to our help, you that want a place to labor, and do good while you can. All these chances will soon be past. This is the only world in which we can do good to suffering, fallen humanity. C. O. TAYLOR.