Interesting Meeting in Illinois.
By I. Sanborn
Bro. White: Pursuant to appointment Bro. Ingraham and I met with the church in Clyde, Ill. formerly known as Round Grove. This was the first time I ever preached to this church. Bro. Ingraham could not remain with me but three days on account of other appointments. Here I and Mrs. Sanborn have formed many happy acquaintances. A few faithful brethren have succeeded in erecting a comfortable house of worship 26 by 40 which has been well filled with their neighbors for the last three weeks listening to the powerful compelling sanctifying truths of the third angel's message. Last Sabbath, March 5, I baptized fourteen, all young people, among whom were three of Bro. Hart's children and two of Bro. Wick's daughters. I wish to say here without boasting that I consider the whole company that have been baptized the flower of this entire community; and I look upon them as an ornament to this church, and trust they will all be faithful to the end, and meet us in the kingdom. Twenty-five including the fourteen, baptized, were added to the church the same day, and in the evening we met to attend to the ordinances. A large congregation were present, who were solemnly impressed that they were in the house of God, while several others decided to go with us to Mt. Zion. Since writing the above I have continued the meetings one week longer. Last Sabbath I baptized seven more; and eleven, including those baptized, were added to the church, which makes, in all, twenty-one baptized and thirty-six added to the church. I have also sold about thirty-five dollars' worth of books at this meeting and obtained six new subscribers for the Review and four for the Instructor. I should undoubtedly have obtained more, but on account of rain and mud, our meetings were not so thronged as the first; yet I consider it one of the best meetings I ever attended. A lasting impression is left on the community, and quite a number told me they thought they would soon obey, and I trust they will. Here I should not neglect to say that Bro. Robert Andrews, on the twenty-first of Feb. 1864, at the commencement of this meeting, was ordained and duly set apart to the work of the ministry according to the usages of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Wm. S. Ingraham and I. Sanborn officiating Elders.