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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 48.

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Southern Illinois

By M. G. HUFFMAN

AFTER my return from the General Conference I joined Elder P. G. Stanley in a series of tent-meetings in Urbana. We began our meetings in a central part of the city about the nineteenth of June, and continued them until August 18, continuing them until October 12. The Lord greatly blessed our efforts, and as the result a goodly number took their stand for the truth, and we have now a company in the twin cities of between twenty-five and thirty, and a Sabbath-school numbering forty. There were a few Sabbath-keepers in the two cities when we went there.
The friends have rented a hall in a central location for one year, with the privilege of the same for three years. The hall has been nicely fitted up, at a cost of one hundred and ninety-five dollars; but we received in cash donations $212.95, leaving a remainder of over seventeen dollars in the treasury. The evening of October 22 we dedicated the hall with appropriate services. During our tent effort we received over one hundred and six dollars, and the company has already paid $383.95 tithe since we began meetings there.
We sold a goodly number of our bound books, and put into the hands of the people thousands of pages of tracts, and have obtained a large number of subscriptions for our different publications.
I left Urbana November 3, and went to Sadorus, where we have one family of Sabbath-keepers. I preached three evenings there in a hall, and the Lord blessed. Monday, November 6, I left Sadorus for Tallula, where I began a series of meetings in three large rooms in a hotel last evening, November 8.
Elder Stanley remained in Urbana to follow up the interest in the twin cities, while, in harmony with the desire of the conference committee, I will spendsome months visiting among the churches. I am of good courage, and praise the Lord that he still grants me the privilege of having some part in his work.
M. G. HUFFMAN.