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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 11, 1878

MAINE

Report of Labor.

We have been favored in Maine with a visit from Bro. Haskell; and although the roads were so extremely bad that but few could attend, yet the meetings at South Norridgewock, Somerset Mills, Richmond, and Allen’s Corner, Deering, were good and profitable. I very much regret that the going was such that we could not have a general meeting, and earnestly invite Eld. Haskell to visit us again at a convenient time, and hold at least two or three general meetings, one of these to be held at Linneus, Aroostook Co.

Has not the time fully come for advance steps to be taken in this State? Is not the Lord just as willing to work for us in Maine as for those in other states? I believe he is, when we put ourselves in a position to receive his blessing and to work effectually in his cause. Calls are coming in from every quarter, and the cry is, Come over and help us. The Lord is coming, and it is time to awake and put on the whole armor of God.

I met with the church on Crotch Island, March 26. Found them all firm in the truth. The 27th I spoke to the friends on Long Island, and was rejoiced to find the constable who so kindly protected me last January when the man came to the house armed with an ax, keeping the Sabbath, with his wife, and still others are interested. I am reminded of the statement in 2 Cor.: “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” Those who embrace the Sabbath readily leave off the use of tea and tobacco. This is just as it should be.

At Brunswick, March 31, we ordained an elder and deacon for the church. May the Lord add to their number daily such as shall be saved. J. B. GOODRICH.

Somerset Mills, April 2, 1878.

Aroostook Co.

Commenced meetings on Silver Ridge plantation, Aroostook Co., Feb. 25, and continued them until March 23. As a result, eleven are keeping the Sabbath. I took an expression of the congregation to ascertain how many believed we had the truth according to the Bible, and about thirty raised their hands.

We met with some opposition from the Congregational minister. When I asked him for his authority for keeping the first day of the week for the Sabbath, he said they had not a “Thus saith the Lord” for it, and did not need one, since they had the whole Christian world in favor of Sunday-keeping. I believe it is better to have a “Thus saith the Lord” for our guide, and stand alone in the world, than to go with the multitude and have a “Thus saith the Lord” against us. S. J. HERSUM.