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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 8.

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ILLINOIS

By D. T. Bourdeau

Clifton, Aug. 5.—The unusually busy season with farmers at this place, and the opposition of the Catholic clergy, forbid our expecting ordinary success, yet we have had the privilege of speaking to a few French Roman Catholics and Protestants, and have satisfied our minds as to what could not be done at present; therefore we shall feel free to enter another field after camp-meeting. The Catholic priests are holding their jubilee earlier than usual, with the design of turning the people away from our meetings. Drunkenness and other sins of the deepest dye are left unrebuked by priests who treat as heretics those who would reform the people. Probably the best way to introduce the truth among them is by colportage and by consistent living on the part of our French brethren dwelling among them. The recent effort here has confirmed me in these convictions.
At Pittwood we have a church of forty members nearly thirty of whom have pledged to pay S. B. according to the Bible plan. We have a small T. and M. society, also a Sabbath-school in good running order, and prayer and Sabbath meetings. We shall try to encourage our brethren to attend camp-meeting.
D. T. BOURDEAU.