Missouri Meetings Close Amid Methodist Opposition
By J. H. Cook; J. Lamont
At Rockford school-house, three Methodist ministers came to try to controvert our positions. If success depended upon boastful language and calling us hard names, they certainly did their part. We withstood them for three nights. The fourth they left the field, and left us with a good congregation with which to close our meeting. Fourteen are keeping the Sabbath in the neighborhood of Rockford and Bethel school-houses, and we confidently expect that more will join them soon. We design to return to Bethel school-house the second Sabbath in March, to finish labors there, which had to be suspended on the account of the house being so open that the congregation could not be kept from suffering with the cold.