QUITMAN, GA by C. O. Taylor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1877

QUITMAN, GA.

By C. O. Taylor

During the past year I have followed some of the customs of the South, and have spoken once a month to one congregation. Since the fall weather has come on, I have spoken each night and sometimes twice in the day. I find a continued increasing interest to hear. Three ladies came seven miles on horseback last Sabbath. It is very common to come four and five miles to a night meeting. Within a week, several have taken a stand to keep the Sabbath.

The Bro. Killen whose letter is in the Review of Oct. 25, writes that he is very confident I would get a good hearing should I come and speak to the people. A letter from Bro. Wright, whom I mentioned in a former report as being much interested, and

commencing to keep the Sabbath, shows so much the true spirit of many that I will copy it from the Monroe County paper. It was written, no doubt, to meet the bigotry and wrong spirit of some, as well as to express the writer’s love for the truth:—

FROM UNIONVILLE.

“EDITOR ADVERTISER: We have recently been favored with several discourses by Eld. C. O. Taylor, Seventh-day Adventist, and find him not only an educated gentleman, but an earnest and zealous expounder of the great truths taught in the Bible. His scriptural reasonings are truly eye-openers, and to the candid and unbiased mind, ‘apples of gold in pictures of silver.’

“Entertaining no denominational prejudice, and deeming it unkind to censure or condemn without a hearing, I not only attended his meetings, but received him as a guest, and found nothing objectionable in his teachings, or contrary to the laws of reason or common sense. Indeed, I am of the opinion that if bigotry, superstition, and prejudice were expunged from sectarian hearts, so as to let in the rays of the true Christian religion, there would be more charity exercised for our neighbor, and less slanderous tattling.

“J. F. WRIGHT, M. D.”

I shall labor at present in the center of the State. For several reasons I think it will be more to the interest of the truth.

My address, after this, will be Reynolds, Taylor Co., Georgia. C. O. TAYLOR.