NOTE FROM BRO. MATTESON.
By John Matteson
South of Mound City, I remained about three weeks. Was sick one week, and unable to hold meetings. There was a small church there of four members. Several others were also keeping the Sabbath, but were not fully in harmony with the rest. Two more embraced the commandments, four united with us, and three were baptized. One of those candidates was Bro. Kerns, a mute brother, who came sixty miles, from Le Roy, to take me up there to preach. He seems to love the truth, and to be very firm. He loves to read the REVIEW, and tracts and testimonies, which friends make out his social meetings. How happy such will be, if faithful, when the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. I thought it not best to go with him now, but went, on the first of November, with Bro. Morrison, twenty miles to Centerville, Linn Co., where I am now holding meetings. Obtained a good, large school-house to meet in. Helped Bro. M. to build a little shanty, three miles from the school-house, where we now live. Have held eight meetings, with good attendance, and good interest manifested. Centerville, Kansas, Nov. 14, 1869.