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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 1.

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REYNOLDS, GA.

By C. O. Taylor

On coming to this place last week, I found the company of Sabbath-keepers here steadfast, and growing in the knowledge of the truth. They are anxious to have a meeting-house, where they can worship with none to molest. The Lord prospering, by the time Bro. Haskell visits us this winter, we shall ask him to assist in dedicating a Seventh-day Adventist meeting-house in Georgia. In several counties in the southern part of the State, some are keeping the Sabbath; others are reading. The truth has made a great change in the religious sentiments of those who have become acquainted with it. The Bible is a new book. Once they took no interest in reading it; now they read it with great pleasure.
The readers of the REVIEW will remember Bro. Killen, of Houston Co., whose letterappeared in the paper for Oct. 25. I sent him some pamphlets, tracts, and papers, and have recently received a letter from him, from which I take the following:— “I spent the holy Sabbath in reading the Bible and the papers you sent me. I have kept three Sabbaths, blessed be the name of the Lord. Before I got through reading ‘The Three Messages,’ God opened my eyes, and I was in a great hurry to obey him. My wife and children, and my mother-in-law, all cheerfully keep the Sabbath with me, and I have no trouble in getting my laborers (colored people) to keep it. I feel like ‘lifting up my voice like a trumpet,’ and showing the professed followers of God their transgressions. How gladly would I preach to this people if they would let me; but I trust that God will yet open the way for me, and grant me what I have been a long time praying for, that is, to be a humble, faithful preacher of the pure gospel of the Son of God. Dear Bro. Taylor, I am with you, mind and soul. I have counted the cost, and do not intend to look back.”
Bro. K. also expresses strong affection for this people, especially for those whose writings he has read. By profession, he is a lawyer. Sister White’s writings are well received. One gentleman said he would go fifty miles to hear her speak.
I shall have a supply of REVIEWS, SIGNS, &c., when all get here that are on the way. I shall get those sent to Quitman. Many thanks to kind friends. C. O. TAYLOR.