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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

ILLINOIS

By J. P. Henderson

JERSEYVILLE.—Last September Brother W. M. Lewsadder and I pitched a tent at this place, and began a series of meetings in a field where the truth had never been preached. One family had recently moved to the place, and another lived a few miles away. These families constituted our support. Our congregations were so large we found it necessary to enlarge our tent, which we did by using middle strips, making it thirty by seventy feet, and yet many times it was insufficient to accommodate the people. We continued in the use of the tent until snow fell in November, when we found it necessary to move to a hall, in which services have been continued, at intervals, ever since. As a result fifty persons have accepted the truth. All points of the faith have been presented in an unreserved manner, and are being accepted with good will. Over fifty dollars' worth of our publications have been sold, and our periodicals are being freely subscribed for. Tithing and health reform have already been adopted by the majority, and we have endeavored to instruct so that they would not come short in any good thing. We feast upon the “first” love manifested by these souls newly born into the truth, and rejoice in the work that God has wrought. J. P. HENDERSON.