Laboring in Iowa by Samuel Everett

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Jun 23, 1853

Laboring in Iowa

By Samuel Everett

From Bro. Everett.

DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Since we came to this State, which was last October, we have not found any in this neighborhood who keep the Sabbath, and but few who look for the Second Advent near. We have been kindly treated, generally, and we have found some who have listened to the present truth, whom we hope will investigate it. But we have not been able to do but little yet. We trust the Lord has some jewels in this State, and we hope to labor some here if the Lord will. I am encouraged by the promise to the Philadelphia church: "Behold I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." Rev. iii, 8.

There is a great emigration to this State, and we trust that God will have some laborers here in the present truth, and we pray him to send them in due season. If any of the brethren should come this way, we invite them to call on us. We hope to have a little congregation of Sabbath-keepers to meet with us yet. But those who come must expect to suffer the privations of a New Country, which are very light, probably, compared with the time of trouble approaching.

In this present crisis, let us watch and pray, patiently keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and trust the promise: "I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth."

I am your brother in tribulation, and in hope of the kingdom, SAMUEL EVERETT.

Iowa City, Iowa, May, 1853.