North-Western Kansas by Smith Sharp

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1879

North-Western Kansas.

By Smith Sharp

THERE are about three hundred Sabbath-keepers living in what we generally term North-western Kansas. There are nine organized churches here, but no ordained minister living nearer than two or three hundred miles from the most of them. As they had had no preaching for almost a year; it was decided that I should visit them this winter; and since the middle of last November this has been my work. I have held nine meetings a week since that time on an average. Six have been baptized, quite a number have made a start in the cause of God, about a hundred copies of the SIGNS have been taken in clubs, and twenty-five or thirty have joined the tract society. I think if all come up on S. B. to the pledges they have made, there will be twice as much paid in 1879 as was in 1878. The Sabbath-school work has also received some attention, and in most of the churches the schools are in a prosperous condition.

SMITH SHARP.

Tabor, January 17.