KANSAS by Smith Sharp

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1879

KANSAS

By Smith Sharp

Marsh Creek.—I was with the little church at Marsh Creek, April 5, 6. I think they have made some advancement during the past quarter. The Sabbath-school is more interesting, the meetings are better attended, the Sabbath is kept in a better manner, and the T. and M. work is in a better condition. Two were added to the church, one was baptized, and the ordinances were celebrated.

Friday, April 11, the tent was pitched near Bull City for the district quarterly meeting. Nearly one hundred of our people were in attendance. Twenty or twenty-five came forward for prayers on Sabbath, some for the first time. On Sunday thirteen were baptized, the majority of them strong men and women in the prime of life, starting for the first time to serve the Lord. It was indeed encouraging to see them breaking down in contrition before God. It was a blessed privilege to be kept busy during the entire time between meetings Sabbath afternoon in conversing with those who were anxiously inquiring the way to Heaven. The T. and M. report showed far more labor performed in Dist. No. 1 than had ever been done in one quarter before, and the above shows the result of it. Eld. J. H. Rogers, who was passing through on his way to his home in Missouri, was with us and assisted in the meetings.

SMITH SHARP.

Bull City, Kan., Apr. 14.