North Pacific Mission by I. D. Van Horn

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1875

North Pacific Mission.

By I. D. Van Horn

On the last day of May we took down our tent at Waitsburg. The interest was not sufficient to warrant a longer stay. Our effort there, however, was not wholly without fruit. Three declared their determination to keep the Sabbath. We sold about $36.00 worth of our publications, besides two Bibles. Many became convinced of the truth, yet they thought more of the world than of serving the Lord at present. Last Sabbath, the 5th of June, I was there and eleven came out to meeting but there was only two Sabbath-keepers among them.

On the first day of June, we moved our tent to the little village of Dayton, a place of about three hundred inhabitants, and held our first meeting on the evening of the second.

We have now held six meetings and our congregations so far have been from one hundred to two hundred and fifty. So far, a deep, solemn feeling seems to pervade the audience, and all is quiet about the tent during meeting. Last evening, while explaining the first angel's message, pointing out the facts relating to the fulfillment of the tenth chapter of Revelation; and the disappointment connected with that work, it seemed that the Lord gave the witness of his Spirit to us, and the truth was poured out to the people with convincing power.

We shall hope for good results here, and shall labor faithfully to that end..

I. D. VAN HORN.

Dayton, June 7, 1875.