THE CAUSE IN THE SOUTH.
By C. O. Taylor
No providence preventing, I will leave Reynolds, Ga., to-morrow, May 5, with my team, to spend a few weeks in South Carolina, and then go to Watauga county, North Carolina, and spend some of the hot summer in that part of the State. There is quite an interest in Adventism in the places where I am going. Some, by reading, have been led to embrace the Sabbath; others have heard on the advent, but know nothing correctly on the Sabbath question and the third angel’s message. I leave a good interest here. Some are reading. The following from a correspondent of one of the county papers will show how some hear:— “The ‘Seventh-day Adventist,’ Mr. Taylor, of Reynolds, delivered a series of sermons at the Pine Level church on the 12th and 13th insts. to large and attentive congregations. And those who were not laboring under the influence of popular prejudice had an opportunity of gaining a great deal of information on Scriptural subjects. He chose for the basis of his first discourse the second and third chapters of the book of Daniel, and clearly proved to our mind that we are living in the very last age of the world, by showing that the four parts of the image in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar have respect to the four great kingdoms of the earth, which have flourished and decayed; but the last kingdom, the Roman empire, shall have in it ‘the strength of iron,’ but, being mixed with clay, shall be partly strong and partly broken. “The ten toes of the image represent the ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire was subdivided. ‘And in those days shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, . . . and it shall stand forever.’ This furnishes incontrovertible proof that ‘the days of these kings,’ mentioned in chap. 2:44, refers to the subdivision of the Roman empire, which can never again be united under the government of a universal ruler. He very beautifully compared the four prophetic symbols of Daniel, which have all been fulfilled, to light-houses along the shores of the stream of time; and the last one having been passed, we may know that the world will soon reach its journey’s end. The second discourse was on the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew; it was very beautiful and explicit, but space will not permit us to give the details.” All are not so candid. In my trip during the next three or four months, I shall induce as many to read our publications as I can. Those wishing to send the Signs, will write me at Boone, North Carolina. I hope none will be discouraged in sending reading matter, if they do not get answers to their letters. Their “bread is on the waters.” Do your duty faithfully, and leave it with the Lord. I send from here to South Carolina one hundred and twenty pounds of reading matter to be given away when I get there. I will visit Alabama as soon as I can. Will some member of one of the churches there correspond with me, that I may learn where they are, etc.? I hope to visit New Orleans next winter. My address, till the first of June, will be Cartersville, Darlington Co., South Carolina. After that, till further notice, Boone, Watauga Co., North Carolina. If any are in correspondence with persons on my route (which they can trace on the map), and wish me to visit them, please write. C. O. TAYLOR.