p. 238 | The Cause in the East by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1875

The Cause in the East.

By Editor

A brother writes from Ft. Dodge, Iowa, that four of them, Sabbath-keepers, have started Sabbath meetings and a Sabbath-school, and that they are going to canvass that city to obtain subscribers to the Advent periodicals. This calls to mind a case in Michigan, where three sisters held Sabbath meetings together for one year before another joined them. They moved on by faith. The very fact of their perseverance under difficulties had its effect upon others. After a while a brother joined them, then one after another came in, and the interest increased. A course of lectures was called for and given, and several embraced the truth. A second and third course has since been given, until now they have a good-sized church organization, and a commodious meeting-house. Much of this result is due to the perseverance of the three sisters who first took hold of the work.

The four above mentioned in Ft. Dodge, moving humbly, with faith in God, with publications made ready to their hand, can make a wake in that city. We shall watch to see what results from this small beginning. Success to the persevering.

Bro. Goodrich reports several additions to the company in Richmond, Maine, as the result of about three weeks' meetings in that place.

Bro. J. H. Cook writes of meetings held with Bro. Rogers; that at Lincoln, Mo., ten had already taken their stand upon the truth, and the opposition were trying the lock-out argument, by closing the school-house. But it is the wrong season of the year to use the lock-out argument, in a conference that has some four tents.

He speaks also of interesting meetings at Pleasant Ridge and Rockville, four being baptized in the former place, and union and harmony being restored in the latter, where previously some confusion had existed.

They also held meetings at Nevada and baptized four. A year ago a church was organized there with nine members. They have had bitter opposition to meet, but have moved steadily forward, continually increasing their numbers, until now they have a church of over thirty, with a gaining influence all around, and a growing interest in the truth.

He also reports meetings at Scott, where several souls had lately been brought to decide on the truth by the T. and M. work. Two took their stand for the truth while he was there, and four were baptized.

One of the Missouri tents was to be pitched at Neosho Falls, Kansas, about the 15th of May. Thus steadily the light of truth is scattering its rays all over the land.