St. Louis Mission by Joseph Clarke

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 11, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 23.

St. Louis Mission.

By Joseph Clarke

BROTHER N. W. ALLEE, who had charge of this mission during the past year, was obliged to relinquish it on account of failing health. During his stay here, much was done, and some embraced the truth. Our periodicals have been placed on the passenger boats, and the hotels have also been supplied with first-class reading matter. Some books have been sold, and subscriptions for our periodicals taken.

About the middle of April, myself and wife were invited to take charge of the mission, to relieve Brother Allee. Sisters A. Reaves and E. Neal have volunteered to assist in the work. Our visits to the steam-boats are well received, and the SIGNS which we leave on about thirty passenger steamers are being read till they are worn out. The officers accept them with gratitude. St. Louis has about 400,000 inhabitants, and so situated that reading matter placed on steam-boats here may find readers all the way up and down the Mississippi, up the Missouri, and up the Ohio rivers, with their large tributaries, and so can reach people from a large part of the Union. May the Lord prosper the work. JOSEPH CLARKE.