Untitled article by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 55.

FROM DAYTON (TENN.) JAIL.

By Editor

WE stated last week that a young brother, D. C. Plumb, a student in Graysville Academy, Tenn., had been committed to jail for cutting wood on Sunday. The following is Brother Plumb's letter, written from Dayton jail under date of November 4:—

DEAR BROTHER: As I am in jail for Christ, and have a little time, I thought that I would write you. My whole heart is to do the will of the Lord. I commenced school in the Graysville Academy August 27; I felt the need of a better education to fit me to do God's work in the future. When my time is out here, I shall go into the school again with more earnestness than ever. With this I send you a clipping from the Dayton Leader of November 2. [See last page.] However, it was not personal malice which led the person named to prosecute me, but it was evidently because he hated the truth of God that he took advantage of a bad law, that still remains on the statute book of Tennessee. I expect you will have more of it, for he has twenty-one names taken from which he intends to select those that suit him best, and present them before the grand jury. Court will be in session here for the next ten days. When you get this, lift your heart in prayer to God for me.

Your brother in Christ, D. C. PLUMB.

We will simply say that the letter above was not written for publication, but we believe that our readers will be interested in it. May God bless our young brother and his fellow-laborers who are suffering for the truth's sake.