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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 21.

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INCIDENTS.

A GRAND RALLY OF YOUNG CONVERTS.

While speaking on the second message at Marion, Iowa, we asked, "Where are the 130 young converts of last winter or two years ago? Echo answers, Where?" Only about twelve or fifteen of them could be found as professors. The M. E. church leader, announced what he called a "grand rally" of young converts, to show that Cornell had slandered the church. The first effort was not satisfactory, and another was appointed. The leader urged the importance of all being punctual that there might be a general turn-out. The time came and the "grand rally" amounted to sixteen souls! and they not all professors. Their leader then indulged in a wail of disappointment not very unlike that of the false prophets of Baal when Elijah told them to cry louder, their God might be asleep. A credible witness says the few testimonies given at that "grand rally" appeared like dying groans—the last agonies of spiritual death.
No honest-hearted soul that has a ray of light can fail to see the fallen state of the churches: Indeed! many are mourning over their fall, and know not what it means, but when the light of prophecy shines upon them all is clear.