NEWCASTLE by E. A. Briggs

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1881

NEWCASTLE.

By E. A. Briggs

AT the close of the last sermon which I preached at Nevada City, an active old gentleman stepped up to me and made known his firm determination to henceforth keep the seventh-day Sabbath of the Most High. This brother was thirty years old, and a married man, at the time of the great shower of falling stars of 1833. Matt. 24 : 34. He was the thirteenth individual in that place, who had taken hold of the commandments of God this winter, making a total of thirty commandment-keepers in that vicinity.

I returned from Nevada City to Newcastle March 21, and resumed my labors here. The words spoken seemed to be blessed in this place. A company of thirteen Sabbath-keepers has been organized. Two of these, however, signed the covenant at Auburn last summer, and some of the others were more or less interested in matters pertaining to present truth. E. A. BRIGGS.