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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1878

Neligh.

We closed meetings at Oakdale on Sunday evening, July 7, and pitched our tent and commenced meetings the following evening at Neligh, six miles distant.

We have labored under great disadvantages here. The town is small, and many of the citizens have an interest in farms near by. Harvesting has been pressing, and an unusual amount of wet weather has made it necessary that every effort be put forth to save the ripened grain. Hence our congregations have been small, and the people have been under such a pressure that it has seemed almost impossible to reach them at their homes or in the field. Yet we trust that all the seed has not fallen on unfruitful soil, but that the grain may, with a little more labor after the busy season is past, be bound into bundles.

We baptized two yesterday in the Elkhorn River, and closed our meetings.

CHAS. L. BOYD. DANIEL NETTLETON, JR.

Syracuse, Otoe Co., July 29.

We closed our meetings here last night. The Lord has blessed our labors. Twenty-one signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Some of them want to be baptized. They are not satisfied with sprinkling. Truly “the commandments of God are pure, enlightening the eyes.” May the Lord bless this little company, and keep them faithful unto his coming and kingdom. Bro. A. J. Cudney, our tent master, obtained five new subscribers for the REVIEW, one for the TIDENDE, one for the INSTRUCTOR, and one for the REFORMER.

We now go to a new field of labor. May the Lord guide and direct us.

H. SHULTZ. M. HACKWORTH.