MEETINGS IN WARREN, ILLS.
By M. E. Cornell
Our meetings in this place, held in Platt's Hall, were very well attended most of the time; and we believe good has been done, notwithstanding all the opposition both open and secret, and the inclemency of the weather and going, most of the time. Many acknowledged the truth and several decided to obey it. A good number there will read the Review, and we hope that many more will follow the light in Warren. A Methodist minister sent off to Chicago and ordered a "little book on Chronology" to come by express, by which, as he told the people he would prove that Sunday is the true seventh day. In this of course he would overthrow the general position of all denominations. Our confident declaration that there was not a text in the New Testament to support the change of the Sabbath, prompted some ladies to occupy the time at their society-meeting in searching for testimony, which resulted as we were informed, in convincing some of them that the seventh day was the Sabbath. In Warren, as in most other places, the majority even of those who acknowledge the truth, refuse to obey because of the cross. I am now at Bro. O. Cheney's, in White Rock, where I have been confined for ten days with lung-fever. I am at present some better, and by the blessing of God I hope soon to be in the field again. Bro. Cheney's family have done all in their power to make me comfortable during my affliction. May the Lord reward them is my prayer. From Bro. Cheney I have learned something about the distracted state of the professed Advent churches in Illinois. Three or four years ago, there was a church of about eighty members in this vicinity, and now there are only two or three families left. Eld. Marsh and others have been here with their "Age to Come," "Return of the Jews" &c., and "fouled the residue with their feet." Selfishness seemed to characterize their efforts, and death has been the result. Thus it has been in most parts of the State. I can see no gathering, healthy influence except where the Third Angel's Message is preached. I hear of many hungry, starving souls that are waiting to hear our message, and will gladly receive it. They are disgusted with what has gone before, and want meat in due season. O Lord speed our way on to these honest waiting ones. Amen. White Rock, Ills., Jan. 11th, 1858.