p. 14 | CHEROKEE, KANSAS by J. H. Cook

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 11, 1877

CHEROKEE, KANSAS.

By J. H. Cook

I COMMENCED meetings six miles northeast of this place, at Amity school-house, on the 28th of November. Have continued most of the time since up to the present. The interest has been steady, though the attendance has not been large. I think as the result about ten are keeping the Sabbath. The people here are very poor. I have not found as poor a settlement before in the State. They appear ready to hear and obey the truth, but they receive it slowly. Not being able to buy books, they as yet depend almost entirely on the preached word. Hence the work goes slowly, and requires patience and perseverance. But the poor have the gospel preached to them.

For three days I have been holding meetings at Monmouth. Here the Lord wrought for us with power. One sister came to attend our meetings for the first time, and was so strongly convicted of sin that she cried aloud for mercy in the midst of the meeting. The following evening she again pressed her suit. The Lord answered prayer. Her mourning was turned into joy and rejoicing. God gave her a bright evidence of his approval of her course. She goes home to-day (Friday), rejoicing in God with her husband, to prepare to keep their first Sabbath to-morrow. God appears to be at work in this church, as well as outside. There is a spirit of individual searching for, and putting away of, their sins that I have rarely witnessed, coupled with earnest groaning and agonizing with God for deliverance.

J. H. Cook.