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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1877

Sac City.

Meetings closed here Sunday night, Sept. 30. I think two hundred people have been convinced of the truth; but only about twenty have commenced to keep the Sabbath. We held meetings for five weeks, and then our tent had to go to the Nebraska Camp-meeting.

No public opposition was raised till just as we left; then a first-day Adventist spoke twice on the covenants. He said there was nothing against hatred, or malice, or drunkenness, in the old covenant; that love was not commanded there; and that there was no Christ in it. His “old covenant” was the law of Moses, ten commandments included. And his statements were easily shown to be flat contradictions of the Bible,—of Luke 10:25–28; Deut. 6:5; Lev. 19:16–18; Deut. 29:19, 20. He did not want to talk any longer on the subject, he said, for it would be controversy!

Good was done even by him, and may God be praised for his plain truth.

G. V. KILGORE. R. A. HART.

Oskaloosa, Oct. 2.

The company at this place have secured the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a small house but amply sufficient for the present. Meetings are held every Sabbath, and prayer and social meeting Tuesday evenings. Our ministers are invited to make it convenient to stop and hold a few meetings when passing through this place, and a house will be provided them.

GEO. B. STARR.