Solon, Ohio by R. A. Underwood; J. C. Bartlett

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 11, 1879

Solon, Ohio.

By R. A. Underwood; J. C. Bartlett

We closed our meetings here to-day. Sold $11.00 worth of books, and obtained nine subscribers for the Review and Signs. A bitter spirit of prejudice has been overcome, and a few have decided to obey, while many are investigating. A goodly number of these are from the world. Infidelity gives way before the connected truths of the third angel's message. We will give an extract from a private letter from Bedford, which is to the point. He says:—

"Ever since you were here, I have been diligently searching the Scriptures. I can say that the Bible is an entirely new book to me. The doctrine of eternal punishment, with the gross inconsistencies and worldliness of the orthodox churches, had made me a skeptic and scoffer, as I know it has scores of others. In your tent I heard a gospel of love preached in all its native simplicity and truth; a consistent gospel, one that harmonizes the Bible with itself, with reason, and with man's innate sense of justice. I have sat in the scorner's seat, but it was not religion that I ridiculed so much as the hollow, canting hypocrisy which men called religion. I pray that God may give me faith to lay hold of the promises, that I may secure eternal life. Pray for me."

R. A. UNDERWOOD. J. C. BARTLETT. August 20.