Iowa by Mr. G. P. Hawkins; Mrs. G. P. Hawkins

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1908

Iowa

By Mr. G. P. Hawkins; Mrs. G. P. Hawkins

MUSCATINE.— We moved to this place during the week of prayer, and have been holding public meetings most of the time, also giving readings during the day. We are reaching more people at each Bible reading than sometimes attend meetings in a tent effort. Often we begin readings with one family, and at the second reading there are ten persons present, then twenty, and sometimes thirty. Our first public meetings were held in the church. As a result of them, seventeen, thirteen adults and four youth, have united with us. The people of Muscatine have had a great spiritual awakening as a result of a six weeks' meeting held by Evangelist Wm. Sunday. There were more than three thousand converts. Many of these are searching their Bibles for the truth, and we have not been able to fill a tenth of the calls for reading. We have longed for ten lady Bible workers to assist us in giving the message in the homes now open to the third angel's message. But our church people have stood by us nobly, and in all our associations with them we have never heard a word of criticism. If it had not been for their kind words of good cheer and their prayers, we could never have carried the amount of work that we have carried since coming here.

We are now holding meetings in a hall in South Muscatine. This hall is rented and furnished almost entirely by those not of our faith who are eager to hear the preaching of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. The hall is full every night, and we expect to see many of them soon take their stand with this people. This has been the happiest winter of our experience, and we have never enjoyed our work so much among any people. Remember us in your prayers.

MR. AND MRS. G. P. HAWKINS.