Report from Bro. Snook.
By B. F. Snook
I BEGAN meetings in Toledo under most discouraging circumstances. The Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees had allied together to keep us out of all the houses of worship in the place. We succeeded in getting a very uncomfortable room over a store-house. This however we could not have procured, had not the proprietor been an outsider. We began lectures there and the interest rose as we progressed. We engaged for a debate on the Sabbath and immortality questions with Eld. Edwards, Baptist minister. This opened the way for me to get into the Baptist church for the debate. We discussed eight evenings during harvest, and had a good attendance all through. The victory on the side of truth was perfect. It was universally conceded by the unprejudiced that the views we advocate, were sustained in the discussion. The orthodox kept up the fire after we closed. I heard a Mr. Menson preach on the soul's immortality the next day after we closed the debate. He evinced117a sore dissatisfaction with the defense of the popular theory. I reviewed him on Sunday night. The following Sunday, two sermons were preached on the Sabbath question, by Mr. Dodd, Presbyterian minister. These we replied to on Monday evening. Six have decided to keep the Sabbath, and a number more are interested, but want more time to investigate. Besides those, about three-fourths of a S. D. Baptist church decided on the immortality and soon coming of Christ, and the rest of the truth, so far as they heard. A good work is going on with them. We hope to see this whole church come into the truth. They are a good and upright people, honest, and want the truth. Their minister, Eld. Babcock, treated me with much kindness, and showed himself a good Christian man. He invited me to preach for them all I could, which I did by preaching every Sabbath. He is investigating, and I hope that he will see the truth and come out. The work is well established and the prevailing opinion is that it cannot be overthrown. The enemies' pickets have all been driven in, and hide behind the breastworks of their sacred desks where they feel safe. They here advised their hearers not to bear us; but the honest ones are unruly and will bear for themselves. I hope and look for a greater ingathering of souls there from these meetings. May God give us a goodly increase. I send eleven subscribers for the Review. B. F. S.