p. 127 | KENTUCKY by S. Osborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 18, 1878

KENTUCKY

By S. Osborn

Elizabethtown, April 9.

OUR quarterly meeting near Elizabethtown is in the past. It was considered one of the best we ever had here. Truly God is moving upon the hearts of the people. We have never before had such an outside interest here as there was at this meeting. If we had the men and means to keep up with the interest, a great work could be accomplished in this Conference this year. God is going out ahead of us. But times are so hard that great sacrifice will be required on the part of those who keep the work moving this year. We earnestly appeal to all our brethren and sisters in this Conference to pay up their s. B. by the 10th of May; for by that time we want to start the tent again, and we do not want to be hindered in our work. There are quite a number who are yet in arrears.

There was quite a representation from abroad at our quarterly meeting, and the most of the members who were not present sent their testimonies, which cheered our hearts very much. Two were buried with Christ in baptism. One was formerly a Presbyterian minister, and is a young man in the prime of life. He heard some on our faith at the tent in Elizabethtown, in 1876, and has been keeping the Sabbath the most of the time since. He came out fully on all points of our faith at this meeting, and united with the church. He joined the T. and M. society, and on Monday morning started on his way home, with a load of tracts and books, with which to engage in earnest in the tract work. May God help him to be very useful in this cause.

Considering the hard times, the T. and M. workers of this part of the Conference have done nobly, as will soon be seen by the secretary's report. Bro. R. Garrett preached once, and I the rest of the time.

My address, for the present, is Knob Lick, Metcalfe Co., Ky. S. Osborn.