MISSOURI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1901

ELDORADO SPRINGS.—Elder Millman reports that the attendance at the meetings at Eldorado Springs is excellent. The congregations number from four hundred and fifty to five hundred each evening. Close attention is given to the word spoken. Some of the best people in the town have accepted the truth.

BOONSBORO.—Our interest at this place seems to be deepening and widening. On account of smallpox in the vicinity, the county board of health requested us to close our meetings for a few days, and the past week we have held no meeting. All seem anxious for us to begin meetings again, which we expect to do to-morrow night. Our temporary wants are abundantly supplied. Expenses, including freight on tent, have been, so far, $8.11, and donations $12.33.

Remember us in your prayers.

W. S. CRUZAN, L. W. TERRY.

LAMAR AND BOSTON.—Brother Stuyvesant and I closed our meetings at Lamar, Sunday night, August 25. About fifteen are keeping the Sabbath there, and we think a church may be organized in a few weeks. They have a Sabbath-school well organized, and equipped with supplies.

Our present location is a small station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, about seven miles from Lamar. We began meetings Thursday night, August 29. The attendance is fair, and the interest excellent. We think we shall have a full tent as soon as the news is thoroughly circulated in the country around, seeing this is a farming community. Brother Stuyvesant will look after the work at Lamar and in the surrounding country this winter.

We need your prayers, brethren and sisters; and we trust God will give us some souls here.

D. E. SCOLES.

ST. LOUIS.—On my return from the Oklahoma camp-meeting, I came by way of St. Louis; was much pleased with the church building which had been secured for the regular Sabbath and Tuesday night meetings. This church is in the best part of the city, on the corner of Delmar Boulevard and Newstead Avenue. It is a building 45 x 70 ft., all nicely carpeted and suitably arranged for Sabbath-school services, as well as for the accommodation of larger congregations. The colored brethren and sisters are well located in the colored Y. M. C. A. hall, in the best part of the city for labor for the colored people. They are doing good work, and I trust they may soon have a colored minister to hold a course of lectures. The whole church shows a commendable interest in missionary work. With the prospect of two German laborers and as many to work in the English to join them in labor soon, they are encouraged to hope that more will be accomplished in the near future. May the Lord lead in all plans for work in this important field.

R. C. PORTER.

IN harmony with a recommendation of the late General Conference, Brother Beckner left Kansas City, Monday, for New York, where he will set sail for Jamaica. His two younger sons accompanied him to South Lancaster, where they will attend school for a few years. His eldest son, George, boarded a train going in the opposite direction,—to San Francisco,—whence he and his wife will sail as missionaries to the Society Islands. Certainly nothing but the love of God and His truth could separate so widely a family whose ties were so closely bound. We trust the Lord’s blessing may go with each one.

THE tent-meetings in Kansas City are well attended, and some seem interested in the truth.