KANSAS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1877

Black Hawk.

We closed our meetings here March 11. The people are still anxious to hear. Six more have taken hold of the truth since my last report, making thirty-one that have signed the covenant. Organized a Sabbath-school yesterday, and made a temporary organization for the purpose of holding meetings. Bro. Henry Miller was elected leader, and Bro. N. P. Dixon, Sabbath-school superintendent. I intend to return to this place after the Salem meeting.

Salem.

Meetings closed Mar. 18. Organized a church of seven members. Bro. James A. Ashbaugh was elected elder. Several more will unite soon. We leave a company here of twenty-five that are keeping the Sabbath. Ten of them have lately signed the covenant, and others are investigating. Bro. Stevens labored here last summer, and the people are very anxious for him to return and labor in this vicinity this season.

J. N. AYERS.

Eureka, Greenwood Co.

The quarterly meeting at Eureka has just past. We had hoped to be able at this meeting to gather the scattered Sabbath-keepers in that vicinity into one body. But in this we were disappointed. Some were absent from home. Some were sick. The distance was too great for others—ten or twelve miles. But we were happy to meet, for the first time, Bro. Allee and wife, who came a distance of forty miles, and Bro. and Sr. Main, who came fifty miles. With the exception of Bro. Allee, who became interested while at the Health Institute at Battle Creek some two years since, this was the first time they had ever heard an Advent minister.

These brethren thought themselves well paid for time and expense. What then must be the loss sustained by those who with almost no sacrifice might have been at every meeting? And what must be the difference in the interest which brings about these different results? But our meeting was a success. I think all took fresh courage. Some that had about given up, rallied again. Others realized the necessity of greater consecration, and covenanted anew in this direction. Our ordinance meeting was one of the best. The Spirit of God rested down on us with power.

J. H. Cook.