APPEAL TO THE BRETHREN IN KANSAS.
DEAR BRETHREN: We wish to call your attention to a few facts relative to the interests of the cause in this State. Since our last camp-meeting the work has been progressing. Several new churches have been organized; and quite a number have been led to see and embrace the truths which God has given us in these last days to ripen the harvest of the earth. God is willing to work for us when we work for him. We are all called upon to make a sacrifice. While your ministers should be willing to do this by leaving their homes and families and working for very small wages, we ask you to show the same spirit by your promptness in meeting your s. B. pledges. The prospect now is that some of your ministers will have to leave their labors in the field, and enter upon some other business, in order to meet necessary expenses and support their families, unless our brethren make greater exertions to pay their s. B. pledges when they are due. What we ask is this: Let every member who has pledged, immediately see how much he or she is behind on that pledge, and then make an extra effort to pay up at once. What you have pledged is not your own. You have made a vow that you will do so much for the support of God’s cause. Will you pay your vows? Then there are persons scattered all over the State, who are not connected with any church, we wish to say a word to them. No doubt you are anxious for preaching, and you often make calls for help in your respective neighborhoods. This is right; and all such calls will be responded to as soon as possible; but what are you doing to help fill them? You are under just as much obligation to help sustain the cause as though you were connected with a church. If you have any interest in this truth, send on your tithes and your free-will offerings to your State treasurer, A. J. Stover, Oswego, Labette Co., Kan. If all will do this, the work will go on; otherwise, it will be very much hindered. We ask the elders and treasurers of each of our churches to bring this matter before their people and to ask them to be prompt in meeting their pledges every quarter, that the cause in this State may not languish on account of a lack of interest on the part of its professed friends.