KANSAS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 5, 1877

Black Hawk.

Returned here the 21st. Found the brethren all in good spirits, although the opposition is just now very strong. We held six meetings in private houses, baptized five, and organized a church of seventeen members. Others will unite soon. Bro. Henry Miller (sen.) was chosen Elder.

The brethren are making clean work of putting away tobacco. One brother by the name of Dixon, seventy-two years old, who has been a slave to the filthy weed over fifty years, now rejoices in freedom. Four more have signed the covenant. We leave a company of thirty-five keeping the Sabbath. My address until camp-meeting will be, Garnett, Anderson Co., Kan.

J. N. Ayers.

Elm Creek and Hymer.

Our friends at this place are growing in grace and in the knowledge of the truth. Most of them have been keeping the Sabbath about six months. They have had very little labor, yet have done better than some who have had a good deal more. There appears to be quite an outside interest, also, as shown by the attendance at the mid-week prayer-meeting.

Some who signed the covenant at Hymer soon decided to walk no more with us. Matt. 13:20, 21 is fulfilled in this case. On my return from the quarterly meeting at Centerville, I visited Mt. Vernon and also. Osage City. The brethren are doing quite well at both places. Brethren, let us never weary in well doing. J. Lamont.

Osage City.

Our meetings at Osage City have closed. Eight have signed the covenant. A Sabbath-school has been organized. There are some fifteen Sabbath-keepers about two miles from this place, and all meet together.

I have labored all winter with very poor health, and am now at home to rest. Bro. Vincent, who has been with me for some time, is now in a new field near this.

Geo. Kennedy.

Butler County.

By request I came to this place to organize a church from the few scattered Sabbath-keepers in this vicinity. I expected to hold a few meetings and then pass on; but the interest has grown so that I think it would be wrong to leave at present. Since I left Crawford Co., four weeks ago, calls have pressed me from every direction. Truly, the harvest is great, but the laborers are few.

J. H. Cook.