WHAT SHALL WE DO IN OHIO? by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1878

WHAT SHALL WE DO IN OHIO?

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Dear Brethren: This week you will receive a paper with the above heading, in which we make an earnest appeal to every Sabbath-keeper in Ohio. We request you to read this paper very carefully. Read it aloud in your families. Then we request that the elder or leader of each church read it publicly to his church on Sabbath, Dec. 28. Preserve it for future reference. See that every Sabbath-keeper in all your region has a copy, lest some, by mistake, should be overlooked.

We must arouse to the work of the Lord in this Conference. The more I become acquainted, the more I am satisfied that it is one of the richest and best fields in the world. We must all take hold together.

I recommend particularly that each director visit personally every Sabbath-keeper in his district during this winter. He can take with him such ministering brethren living in his district as he may choose.

I recommend further that each minister labor wholly in the district where he lives. Instead of entering entirely new fields, hunt up scattered brethren, and endeavor to build up a church around them. Ohio is dotted all over with lone Sabbath-keepers who are dying out or doing next to nothing. I think the work to be done for the next six months is not to raise up churches in new fields; but to gather up these brands, get them together, build around them, and thus revive the work of God in the State.

We ask these scattered brethren to send in invitations for labor. The Lord is blessing us. Several new companies have already been raised up this fall.

D. M. Canright.