GLEANINGS FROM THE EASTERN FIELD.
KANSAS, Topeka.—Eld. Smith Sharp, over date of March 30, reports from this place as follows: “I closed my meetings here last Sunday evening, having given thirty-two discourses. Sixteen signed the covenant, and three were baptized. The Baptists kindly granted us the use of their baptistry last Sunday. I expect others will soon follow in this ordinance. Sold over $10.00 worth of books. A Sabbath-school was organized, and a package of Instructors ordered. Received six new subscriptions for our periodicals, and the renewal of two old ones. They have rented a meeting-house on Topeka Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets, where Sabbath-school and meetings will be held regularly each Sabbath.” KENTUCKY, Edmonton.—Eld. S. Osborn, speaking of a meeting held near this place March 13 and 14, says: “Had a good outside attendance and interest. As the result of three discourses, and the labors of Bro. Stephen in circulating tracts and other reading matter on present truth, five came out on the Sabbath. I return in two weeks, if the Lord will, to finish up the work here.” ARKANSAS, Locksburg.—Eld. R. M. Kilgore, who for several years has been laboring in Texas, while returning to that State from a brief visit in the North, spent two weeks in this place. Of his stay here he says: “I labored here about two weeks, amid some prejudice, but no public opposition. A number of the ministers attended, and assisted in the opening exercises, treating me courteously on every occasion. It being court week, quite a number from different parts of the county had the privilege of hearing, and manifested much interest. The interest on the part of the citizens was better at the close, and some expressed regret that they had heard no more. Bro. W. L. Braden was the only one in the place who professed to keep the Sabbath. Others said they would unite with him in the work. After the subject of temperance had been presented, seventeen signed the teetotal, and five the anti-rum and tobacco pledge. With but one exception, these were all using coffee, and nearly all were using tobacco in some form or other. Certainly a wide field opens before the lecturer who treats the subject of temperance from a consistent standpoint; and a crying need is felt in this direction when we see children from six to ten, and boys and girls in their teens, after signing the teetotal pledge, affected with symptoms similar to those of a whisky inebriate in recovering from a state of intoxication.”