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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 2.

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KANSAS

By H. Clay Griffin

DELANEY.—After the tent-meeting at St. Paul, Brother Willie Norwood and I pitched the tent at this place, and began meetings, September 22. From the first the interest has been good. —Five persons have decided to keep the commandments of God, and others are interested and are reading. Many are convinced of the truth.
As a result of the camp-meeting and the tent-meeting following at St. Paul, we have organized a Sabbath-school; about twelve persons are keeping the Sabbath, and two have united with the church. I am trying the envelope-tract plan there, and have about forty-five families reading. I go there every Friday and change the packages, hold Sabbath-school at 10 A. M. on Sabbath, and preach at 11 A. M. I then come back here and preach at night. During the week, I visit and hold Bible readings. The weather has been favorable, and with the aid of a large heater, the tent has been kept comfortable. Will have to close the meetings soon. I then expect to begin work with tracts, and to visit from house to house and hold Bible readings here and at Combs, in connection with my work at St. Paul. There are many calls for preaching in schoolhouses in the adjoining neighborhoods; but I think it best to stay with the interest here, and give all the honest in heart a good opportunity to learn the truth.
Our Conference treasury is depleted, and the committee informs me that it can not promise pay for the winter's work; but I am heeding the injunction of the Saviour in Matt. 20: 6, 7, and firmly believe he will care for me and my family. So I would kindly ask the brethren to pray for me that I may hold on to the promise of God, and so relate myself to the True Vine that I may be an efficient worker—a channel through which the Lord can reach some perishing soul.
Tracts alone are not sufficient for the work in this territory, and I would be pleased to have the friends of the cause who wish to do missionary work send me copies of our denominational books. Even if they are shelf worn, I can use them. Get your neighbor to throw in some good books, box and ship to me at St. Paul, Ark., prepaid, and I will use them to the glory of God. My address for the winter will be St. Paul, Ark. Now let the books and papers come.
H. CLAY GRIFFIN.