Clarksville, Illinois by John F. Ballenger

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 8, 1879

Clarksville, Illinois.

By John F. Ballenger

For several weeks I have been laboring in and around this place, in the neighborhood of the Gridley church. It was a hard field, as many had heard the truth and rejected it, and some of the members of the church had been unfaithful. For some time in the past there had been no Sabbath meetings or Sabbath-school held here, and they had not attended the ordinances for over two years. By the blessing of the Lord on our labors in public and private, a little company of sixteen signed a covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and to unite in church fellowship. Regular Sabbath meetings were established, and a Sabbath-school of twenty-seven members was organized.

J. F. BALLENGER.