TEXAS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 17, 1878

Plano, Sept. 30.

We had no opposition till Eld. Walsh, Presbyterian, from McKinney, waged war on us yesterday. I review him to-night. Eld. Caskey is announced for next Sunday. Some of the people are clamoring for a debate with Caskey. These efforts have made a more lively interest for me. Our congregations are as good as we could expect. The farmers are busy picking their cotton; but the attendance from the country is better now than it was a week ago. There are few book sales, and there is not much chance of obtaining subscribers, as the people are all in debt, and money is very scarce. We are now in the midst of the Sabbath question. R. M. KILGORE.

Later, Bro. Kilgore, writing from the same place, says:—

The interest has not abated since our last report. More from the country are becoming interested, and we are visiting them. Some are convinced, and will obey. Eld. Caskey came last week, tried to crowd me into a debate, and called for a vote from my congregation. It was decided against him by seventy-five against twenty-two. He then tried to get up an opposition meeting by announcing a review the next night. With an audience of thirty-three he concluded to give up the battle and left next day crest-fallen; but he threatened to return at the close of our meetings and make me debate or tear me to pieces.

The weather is beautiful, the health of the community is some better. There was one death from yellow fever at Dallas, eighteen miles from here. Stringent measures are taken to prevent its spreading. The quarantine laws are imperative, and the officers are vigilant; even the mails are burnt. The brethren at Dallas have not seen the REVIEW for several weeks. The distress in stricken districts is appalling, and a gloom is cast over the entire South. The object of the late fast proclaimed by the governor of Texas was, that God might be importuned to prevent the scourge from entering our State. When the judgments of God are abroad in the land, the people should learn righteousness.

Oct. 5, I met with the church at Dallas. Bro. E. G. Rust resigning his offices as deacon of the church and secretary of the tract society, Bro. E. W. Crawford was selected to fill the office of leader of the church. All business with the T. and M. society, for the present, can be addressed to me here, or at Peoria, Hill county.