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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 20.

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TEXAS

By R. M. Kilgore

After leaving friends, and associations of thirty-two years in Iowa, and stopping a few days in Kansas, to visit relatives there, we were safely landed last night at midnight at Bro. A. B. Rust's, twelve miles west of Dallas. Myself and family are in the enjoyment of good health.
We left Iowa with underclothing and overcoats to keep us comfortable, the ground beneath the surface frozen, the farmers sowing their wheat, and the buds of flower and tree still folded and sleeping. In exchange, as we awoke this morning our eyes were greeted with the blooming flowers, while field and forest are arrayed in living green. Garden vegetables are ready for use; the farmers are ploughing their corn, some of which is more than a foot in height; the fields of wheat are waving in the wind, with the heads burdened and almost ready to whiten for the harvest. The temperature is such while I write that I am compelled to lay aside outer garments, and the children are running barefoot. The transition is so great that it makes us feel as though we had been translated to another world.
The brethren in Texas cordially greet us, and give us a hearty welcome among them. As we enter this vast State and new field of labor, the burden of the work is resting upon us; and our prayer is that God may baptize us anew for the work here, prepare us for true burdens, and prevent us from taking up any false ones. We seek the blessing and wisdom which God promises, and crave the counsel and advice of those leading in this glorious message. We are glad to meet with Bro. and Sr. Clark, and to find them of good courage in the Lord, and hopeful in the work connected with their mission. Their labor among the freedmen, standing, as it does, aloof and separate from party and political objects and influences, is sure to result in good, the fruit of which will be realized in the kingdom of God.
Most sincerely do we desire the prayers of God's people.
Our address will be Deckman, Dallas Co., Texas. R. M. KILGORE.