Springfield, Ohio by D. M. Canright

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1879

Springfield, Ohio.

By D. M. Canright

WE have just closed one week's labor at Springfield. There are thirty-nine Sabbath-keepers in this company. Over half of them were brought into the Sabbath under the labors of Brothers Waggoner and Stone, when they were here last Summer with the tent. Regular meetings have since been kept up. We hired a hall for our meetings. Nearly all the Sabbath-keepers attended promptly; but the outside interest was small. Yet we found a large number who had heard the truth in the tent and believed it. Could one of the brethren have remained here for a few weeks to take care of the interest raised, the strength of the church might have been much increased. But there are enough Sabbath-keepers to make a good, working church, and most of them are strong in the truth and are trying to live it out faithfully.

We organized a Sabbath-school, and the brethren paid for twenty-five copies of the weekly Instructor. We organized a church of sixteen members. Quite a number will be admitted at their first business meeting. Several did not join, as they were not ready to be baptized. Abram McLellan was elected clerk, and H. W. Cottrell, elder. We enjoyed our visit with them very much. Three young people made a good start at this meeting, and the husband of one of our sisters begins the observance of the Sabbath this week. We got nearly every family in the church to take the Review.

D. M. CANRIGHT. A. O. BURRILL.