The Cause in Southern Iowa.
By Isaac Sanborn
As it may be interesting to the readers of the Review to know how the cause is prospering in Southern Iowa, I can assure all, that the churches I have visited are making decided efforts to rise and come to the unity of the faith; and God is blessing them, and adding to their numbers. I have been astonished as I have traveled through this field of labor to find the churches, many of them, so far behind the body of Sabbath-keepers in many respects. But now I know that if they will be faithful in keeping the covenants they have made with God, he will bless them and bring them through to the kingdom. God has greatly blessed me with freedom in presenting the truth, through which Jesus prayed they might be sanctified: and I have rejoiced as I have seen the sanctifying power of truth taking effect in the hearts of his people. May God continue to bless and sanctify them wholly, that we may at last meet in his everlasting kingdom. I commence meetings this evening in the court-house in Washington, and continue over Sabbath and first-day. Washington, Iowa, Sept. 11, 1863.