p. 149 | KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE CONFERENCE

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

KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE CONFERENCE.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

This meeting was held Oct. 24-28, at Powder Mills, Ky., about seventy-five miles south of Louisville. The brethren, by a commendable effort, have erected a meeting-house here in which our meetings were held. About fifty of the leading brethren and sisters in the Conference were present. There are now one hundred and seventy Sabbath-keepers in these two States, though they are much scattered. One hundred and eight belong to the church; others are not yet organized. There has been a gain of thirty-four members the past year.

There was $341 paid in on S. B. the last year, and $550 spent in the T. and M. work. There are now five preachers in the Conference, though all are young in the work except Eld. Osborn. Bro. G. K. Owen was ordained to the ministry at our meeting, and his wife was licensed to preach. They will have the entire oversight of the work in Tennessee. The friends of the cause in that State are requested to heartily second all their efforts and to correspond with them.

Bro. Crocket, formerly a Presbyterian minister, a young man of some promise, will work in Kentucky as far as the means of the Conference will allow. Bro. Osborn has done nobly, and has the confidence and love of all the brethren.

Our meeting was a very pleasant one. All seemed to be united in fellowship, and in confidence in the work. Several made a start to serve God, and nine were baptized. Over $300 was pledged to assist the cause in the State. A lack of means cripples the laborers much as yet; but we expect that this will be remedied soon, and that other laborers will be raised up to push on this work. We had an excellent outside interest.

I am now enjoying a pleasant steamboat ride up the Ohio River to begin work in Ohio. Oh that God will go with us and bless our labors in that needy Conference. D. M. Canright.