BRO. HULL'S REPORT by Moses Hull

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1859

BRO. HULL'S REPORT.

By Moses Hull

DEAR BRO. SMITH: While awaiting the arrival of the stage I thought I would write a few lines to the brethren.

I am fully persuaded that the Lord is willing to work in this State. 1st. From the fact that freedom is given them in speaking. 2d. From the interest manifested to hear, and 3d, from the wrath of the dragon.

After the tent was taken down in Richmond, I was, by the solicitation of many citizens, persuaded to stay one more week and preach in the Baptist church. The result was good. The Lord's Spirit was present from first to last, and notwithstanding the weather was very hot the church was crowded every night. Some others decided to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Our Sabbath meetings were well attended, and filled with good testimonies from those who have just started in the good way. To the Lord be all the praise.

The behaviour was generally good, with the exception of two or three ministers who were evidently in much trouble on account of their craft. One Methodist minister broke in upon us as many as twenty times in my last discourse. The reason was obvious. He had preached a discourse in the forenoon on the change of the Sabbath which I was reviewing, and of course it made him uneasy. But the very large audience which were in attendance could see where the testimony and Spirit of the Lord was.

One man (Campbellite) who has been following us for six months with a challenge to debate the Sabbath question, came with the endorsement of his party, and I consented to spend one day in debating with him. I am certain that the congregation could see, notwithstanding he had the counsel of the leading ministers of three denominations, that he failed to prove the abolition of all, or either one, of the ten commandments. Although the man with whom I debated seemed to be a candid man, his friends manifested their faith in the abolition of God's law by bearing false witness against their neighbors. They put in circulation some of the most barefaced falsehoods they could think of. But even this resulted in good.

M. HULL. Washington, Iowa, July 11th, 1859.