Closing Report of Northern Wisconsin and Kansas Tent.
By J. H. Rogers
We continued at Mt. Hope until September 29, when it became too cool to hold meeting evenings, so we took down the tent, closing our meetings in the village school-house the evening of the 1st inst. with good interest. Sold twenty-three dollars’ worth of books. While these meetings were closing, we started meetings at a school-house between Mt. Hope and Chapel Hill, continuing till the 8th inst., resulting in seventeen deciding to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” Nine were baptized. Bro. Sharp and I stayed to close these meetings while Bro. Cook went about ten miles south in to Johnson County to finish up the work there and organize them; fifteen subscribed to the covenant; two were absent, whom they rely on. About one hundred and twenty-five dollars were pledged on s. B. To the brethren and sisters in this Conference I would like to say, We have done the very best this season we could with our limited means and few laborers for the cause. We know there are those who, not only desired help, but expected some before this, and some have felt to complain of being neglected. We are sorry it is so, but it is not on account of local interests or sectional feelings, but for the want of means and laborers in the field. Let those churches and scattered brethren who desire labor address me at Altovista, Daviess Co., Mo., as soon as convenient, and the committee will do all they can to visit all such during the winter. Let us all take hold of this work together, more in earnest than ever before. Altovista, Mo., Oct. 15, 1873.