MISSOURI by George I. Butler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 18, 1878

MISSOURI

By George I. Butler

Sedalia, July 11.

The interest here is still quite good, though it has fallen off some since we introduced the Sabbath question. We have a great many friends already, and things are still working favorably. Several hundred are out to hear us nearly every evening. The ministers begin to take up some of our subjects, and we expect this will add to the interest. We still have a daily report of about three-fourths of a column, containing the pith of our discourse the night before, in a paper which has a daily circulation of about twelve hundred, extending over a large region of country. This makes our audience still more extensive than the one we speak to in the evening. The publishers seem to be glad to get our reports. We hope for good to come out of this.

Occasionally a drunken man came around the tent and annoyed us. Some of the audience went to the city marshal for a policeman to look after the matter. He said he could not well spare any of his force, but would gladly commission one of our number. Bro. Reavis was duly appointed by the mayor, and they have offered to appoint another also, if we desire. This is quite a help to us.

To-night we have a grand temperance rally in the tent, as a leading lecturer happens to be present in town. The Methodist minister solicited the tent for the occasion. Of course we gladly consented. Altogether we hope for much good here, but we expect to have to hold on quite a while in order to complete the work. We have thus far given four discourses on the Sabbath question. We ask the earnest prayers of God’s people in our behalf, that we may have a glorious victory, and firmly plant the truth in this new field.

GEO. I. BUTLER.