VIRGINIA by I. Sanborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1879

VIRGINIA

By I. Sanborn

I LEFT North Scituate, R. I., Jan. 1, and reached Mt. Jackson, Va., at 3 P. M. on Friday. I was kindly received at the home of Bro. R. T. Fultz, and was made to realize the truthfulness of our Saviour’s promise, as given in Mark 10:29, 30.

The weather was very cold here, with about two inches of snow. This prevented people from a distance attending our quarterly meeting, and there were only fourteen Sabbath-keepers present on the Sabbath. I can learn of only twenty-five or thirty active and reliable workers in the State.

They have a comfortably good house of worship here in Soliloquy. The Sabbath-school is small, as is also the company of Sabbath-keepers, but we hope soon to see additions. The tent that is here is badly damaged, but perhaps we can make it last another year.

Our meetings continue here over another Sabbath and first-day. We shall then commence a series of meetings at Mt. Zion, Page county, fourteen miles south of this place, where there is an unorganized company of thirteen Sabbath-keepers. We hope to see good done and souls converted, and trust we shall have the prayers of all God’s people.

My address, until further notice, will be, Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah county, Va.

I. SANBORN.