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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 5.

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TEXAS

By R. M. Kilgore

The meeting at Cleburne was but thinly attended, on account of bad weather and the condition of the roads. The brethren and sisters are making good advancement in the Christian life, and are seeking for more and more of the life and power of godliness, and are coming up nobly on all the reforms. Tobacco, tea, coffee, and pork are staple articles in Texas. Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff-dipping are practiced by men, women, and children, as a rule, though honorable exceptions are found occasionally; but in almost every case where the truth has been received with the whole heart, these luxuries (?) have been laid aside. We have been waiting, before organizing at Cleburne and Peoria, to see the effect of the truth on the lives of those who have received it. I expect now to return in a short time and organize more fully at Cleburne. Their figures on S. B. were increased, and their zeal in the T. and M. cause also. The meeting here was profitable, and I was much encouraged.
The general quarterly meeting at Dallas was enjoyed greatly by all who came with a mind to work. It was a profitable season. The communion was a solemn and impressive scene. With a single exception, love and harmony seem to prevail here. The S. B. was increased. Two were added to the church by letter.
The meeting of the T. and M. Society was profitable; and although the report was comparatively small on account of the length of the quarter, yet it showed activity. Greater zeal, and a deeper interest in this important branch of the work, are certainly required at our hands, and we have strong hopes that they will be manifested throughout the entire new year.
During this tour of one hundred and fifty miles, we have been encouraged by enjoying the manifest presence of God in our meetings. In our absence good meetings are reported at Peoria. The work on our meeting-house has been greatly impeded on account of the weather. We are at work on the foundation. We are in our own home, having purchased a cheap property in the village. This is now our permanent address. R. M. Kilgore.
Peoria, Hill Co., Texas, Jan. 15, 1875.