Meetings in Missouri by George I. Butler

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 18, 1878

Meetings in Missouri.

By George I. Butler

Our meetings here are largely attended, our audiences usually ranging from three hundred to eight hundred interested hearers. We were really crowded into speaking on the subject of the life and death question. So many came to ask us about it that we saw no other way but to take it up, and so far we see no abatement of the interest. Shall probably take up the Sabbath question by next Sunday. Quite a number have requested us "not to leave till we speak upon it," which of course pleases us. We stated in our bills on the start that we were "Seventh-day Adventists," and every report in the paper is headed, "The Seventh-day Adventists." So the people know of us. And we like this better than to have our name not known. That name is getting to be pretty well known to the world, and the impression it makes is not a bad one. Why should it not stand out everywhere?

We have had a daily report three-fourths of a column long in the largest city daily, so far. We had a large temperance meeting in the tent Sunday afternoon, presided over by the two Methodist ministers of the place, and another is appointed for next Sunday afternoon. We talked a short time by the invitation of those conducting it. Pray for us.

Sedalia, July 3. Geo. I. Butler.