GEO. I. BUTLER by George I. Butler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1878

GEO. I. BUTLER

By George I. Butler

on spiritualism were taken. The time is not far distant when a course of lectures should be given in Hamilton. We believe God will bless this little church. We stopped at Gallatin, and looked at a beautiful place for our camp-ground, in the edge of the town.

At Half Rock our meetings were well attended. The house was crowded most of the time, and those not members followed up the meetings Sabbath and Monday, as well as on Sunday. Our people need a meeting-house much. The church took a club of nineteen Signs, and seemed anxious to learn to work in the Lord’s vineyard. Bro. E. A. Dean was ordained elder. The Spirit of the Lord witnessed with us on this occasion. There is a foundation laid for a good church at Half Rock.

This meeting closed my trip of over three months, in Missouri. After taking a little rest at home and attending to necessary duties, it will be time for camp-meeting and tent labor. I never saw a worse time to get around and hold meetings than the past winter. Rain and mud have been the order of the day; but I have filled all my appointments, and good has been done. The T. and M. work has been started. Between three hundred and four hundred copies of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES are now taken for distribution, where probably there were not twenty before. Instruction has been given which we hope will result in good. Subscribers are being obtained, to some extent, for our periodicals, and more of a desire is felt to work for the Lord. In several churches where clubs were raised, they have been increased since I left, and meetings are more interesting. As the brethren go to work, they will prosper in the Lord. A better influence is working into many of the churches, and openings for labor in many places promise good results. On the whole, we are much encouraged for Missouri.

GEO. I. BUTLER

Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, March 27, 1878.