Lectures, Sabbath Discussion, and Baptisms
By J. R. Goodenough
Bro. White : I have given two courses of lectures in Sauk Co. since last February, and a few have been led to give up their errors and embrace the truth. May the Lord help them to live it out. June 8, I held a discussion with a Disciple minister on the Sabbath question, before an audience of four or five hundred people. He labored hard to confound the two laws, and make them the old covenant, and then abolish all together. But when I showed that there were two laws, he tried to show that the Sabbath was a ceremonial command, and depended upon the old covenant for an existence, and as that is gone, the Sabbath, which was a part of it, was gone too. I then showed that the Jews were required to keep the Sabbath before the old covenant was made, that it was made for man (not for the Jews only), and did not depend upon the old covenant for an existence, therefore could not be affected by it. Truth gained another victory, and the discussion closed. The next Sabbath I met with the brethren at Bro. Blood's, and after preaching on the conditions of salvation, two were baptized. Others, who were not ready then, will probably go forward as soon as an opportunity is given them. The sixth of the month I shall commence a course of lectures in the town of Otsego, Columbia Co. Pray for us here, that we may all stand at last on Zion's hill. Yours striving to overcome,
J. R. Goodenough.
Dane, Wis., July 1, 1862.