ALABAMA by A. O. Burrill

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 25, 1878

ALABAMA

By A. O. Burrill

Owl Valley, April 9.

DURING the week which has just closed, Bro. Ellett has been canvassing the Sabbath question at Coats's Bend, four miles from Owl Valley, and I have been bringing it before the people here. It is stirring the people mightily in both places. Quite a number have decided to keep the Sabbath, and others are deciding. We, of course, have to meet the prejudices common to a new field. Our courage is good. We are getting quite a number of subscribers for our periodicals.

I have just received intelligence from my wife, who is teaching in Choctaw county, that a prominent Baptist minister attacked the Sabbath there, and she reviewed him; that her school is prospering beyond her expectations, both in numbers and improvement; that the Sabbath-school is getting into real working order; that several attend whose parents do not keep the Sabbath; and that the prayer-meetings are well attended and interesting.

I have just received a letter from Bro. Z. Rogers, leader of the second church of Bladen Springs; he reports good meetings. Thus the work moves on.

My address is Gadsden, Ala.

A. O. BURRILL.