MISSOURI by George I. Butler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1878

MISSOURI

By George I. Butler

Clintonville and Union Point.

Met with these churches according to appointment, Feb. 8 to 18. Gave twenty-two discourses, talking to the members days and to outsiders evenings. The former church is quite small, and the members somewhat scattered. Two were received into the church at the former place, and three at the latter.

There was a good interest at Union Point. The school-house was densely packed nearly every evening, and some of the time all were not able to get into the house. Bro. Cicero M. Holland, formerly of Iowa, is the elder of this church. He has labored in several places in this section of the country, with good results. The church seems united and quite earnest; and we had better meetings here than at any other place I have been in the State. I trust others will be added to their numbers.

The brethren are very poor, many of them; but they took a club of thirty SIGNS for distribution in the missionary work; and the little church at Clintonville took fourteen copies. The Nevada church have increased their club to thirty-nine copies. We trust the T. and M. work is advancing some in the State, and the work of God is moving onward. GEO. I. BUTLER.