MEETINGS IN MISSOURI by Wm. Evans

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 26, 1876

MEETINGS IN MISSOURI.

By Wm. Evans

LINCOLN.

I came to the Lincoln church, near Holden, in company with Eld. Chaffee, to attend the T. and M. quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 3, Oct. 7 and 8. We found the church in a discouraged condition, so much so that at our first meeting, at eleven o’clock Sabbath, there were only six persons present, while there are more than thirty names on the church book. There has been no S. B. paid for the last six months, and the opinion was freely expressed, that they would not again be represented in State Conference.

The district director is attending the Centennial, and they have no secretary, so that very little could be done in the T. and M. work. We have held seven meetings, and visited many at their homes. The preaching has been well received, not only by the brethren, but by the few who came in from outside. A good number of the brethren feel that this state of things should not and must not continue, and express the opinion that it will not. They are anxious to have more meetings when we come back from visiting the churches south, which wish I think we shall be able to gratify. They pledged fifty-five dollars to buy a new tent.

We start this morning to fill appointments south.

NEVADA.

In company with Eld. Chaffee, I reached Bro. Hunter’s Oct. 13th, before the Sabbath. The brethren came in from Union Point, Clintonville, Rockville, and Drywood churches, to the number of about thirty.

We have held eight meetings, three at Bro. Hunter’s house, three in Odd Fellows’ hall, and two in the court-house. The meetings have been characterized throughout by a very good spirit, the conference meetings, in which nearly all took part, being especially interesting. The active members in this church are very much reduced in numbers by removal and by sickness. The outside attendance has been small.

There is one matter to which I think I should call the attention of brethren attending such meetings; that is, of bringing corn for their horses, and provisions for themselves. It is but little trouble, and a great relief to the brethren where the meetings are held. Wm. Evans.

Nevada, Mo., Oct. 16, 1876.