Northern Missouri by L. R. Long

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1875

Northern Missouri.

By L. R. Long

AFTER camp-meeting, I was urgently solicited to visit the church in Empire, Decalb Co. I found this little company had lived through the grasshopper scourge, and they have kept up their regular Sabbath meetings and Sabbath-school during the summer. They have experienced the most bitter opposition and relentless persecution of any company within my knowledge. Four different preachers have preached against our views here. This church was organized last spring, mostly from the remains of a first-day Adventist church. Their former preacher lately announced that he would preach against the Sabbath, &c., and challenged opposition. I immediately went to hear him, but I was disappointed in my expectations, as he took up his appointment and suddenly left, to the astonishment of his congregation. Our friends were much strengthened by our labors. They now desire to have quarterly meetings established there.

L. R. LONG.