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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 22, 1882

From the Field.

OHIO, Spencer, May 28.—I have spent the last three Sabbaths in this place, and have met with some success. A church of eleven members was organized. Five were baptized. Nine were added to the T. and M. Society. A Sabbath-school is sustained, consisting of sixteen members. The tithing system was duly considered. I sold nearly fifty dollars' worth of our publications. I also secured a subscription of several hundred dollars for a house of worship. I shall follow up this enterprise, and hope to see a meeting-house built this summer. The truth has in this place many friends whom we hope to see obey it and become connected with us. I tried to explain all our faith and customs, as a people, so that they might move understandingly, and become co-laborers with us in the work of saving men. I desire the blessing of God to attend the work in this place, and that others may be gathered with them.

TEXAS, Brushy Knob and Denton.—Since my last report, I have visited Brushy Knob twice. Since the debate with Eld. Stirman at that place, several have commenced keeping the Sabbath; and during my visit, a Sabbath-school of sixty-eight members was organized, and eight precious souls were received into the church by baptism. With the results accomplished during and since the debate, we are much gratified. The interest created throughout the community in favor of the truth is greater than at any time previous to the discussion.

Bro. Richard Conradi writing from Milltown, Dakota, May 22, gives the following interesting items: "Yesterday I visited a German-Methodist, thirty-five miles west, who, against the bitterest opposition from his wife, commenced to observe the Sabbath a few weeks ago. We had a blessed interview, and he, with renewed zeal, seeks to spread the truth way out on the frontier. I have received twenty subscriptions for the Stimme, one for the Instructor, one for the Tidende, and sold over twenty German Bibles. In this field, eighty miles in length, there are now about sixty families reading the Stimme, hundreds well supplied with our tracts, and several places in which to hold meetings; there are also about twenty-five churches, of various creeds, that have considered the Sabbath question, more or less."