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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1877

We are having much of the blessing of the Lord in our meetings here. There are good openings all around to hear the truth. Truly the harvest is ripening, but where are the laborers? A. B. RUST.

Deckman, Dallas Co.

We are making our stay here at the hospitable home of Bro. A. B. Rust, who has a fine place of 200 acres, mostly under fence, and some 80 acres ploughed. We have pitched our tent (12x16), and find it quite a pleasant home. The freedmen, of whom there is quite a colony near by, are getting the lumber together for a school-house, which they intend to erect within one month, and they have engaged Mrs. Clarke to teach for three months. They are confident of having some twenty-five pupils.

The white citizens are helping to raise means for the house, and quite a number have subscribed towards it. There is a favorable sentiment in this direction. Bro. and Sr. Rust have been here some over a year, and have done much to enlighten the public mind upon the views of S. D. Adventists; and the people know that we are not politicians nor fortune hunters.

Some five families of S. D. Adventists are here now, and the meetings and Sabbath-school are very interesting and impressive. We are under many obligations to Bro. and Sr. Rust for their kindness, and to all our brethren here. We ask the prayers of God's people. J. AND S. CLARKE.