Personal by GEO. O. STATES

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 20, 1904

Personal

By GEO. O. STATES

For the last few years my health has gradually been failing. Last December my brethren of the conference committee advised me to go to the eastern part of the State, thinking a lower altitude would be better for me. While laboring in Wray, Colo., I had a serious time about the middle of January. Not realizing my condition, after resting a few days I began holding meetings in a small town near by, where the truth had never been presented. For several weeks I preached nearly every night, and did a large amount of visiting. In March I attended the Central Union Conference, and being anxious to get all there was waiting for us, I was present at all the services. At the close of this conference I returned to my field of labor and held meetings, baptizing some, and conducting the quarterly meeting with the Wray church in April.

My son, Dr. G. W. States, who was just completing his medical course at the university in Boulder, wrote for me to come there, which I did after the quarterly meeting in April. I remained in Boulder, doing very little public work, until the twentieth of June, when I went to Denver, assisting Elder Anglebarger in tent work, but doing no preaching. My health growing worse, the first of September I came to Delta, and the doctor and Elder Watson decided that I must give up all public work, and go on my little fruit ranch.

For over twenty years I have been actively engaged in the ministry, and this is the first time I have had to give up on account of ill health. It has been hard for me to do it; and as I think of my dear children in the truth in different places, I wish them and my brethren in the ministry with whom I have been so long acquainted, to remember me in their prayers, that God's blessing may rest upon my endeavors to regain my health. I do desire to have a part in swelling the loud cry, and I have faith to believe that I shall. GEO. O. STATES.