Clarion, Pontiac and Caldwell, Kansas.
By John Harvey Cook
Aug. 1-18 we spent with the above-named churches. The Clarion church was formerly known as the White Water church. This church was composed of two bodies of believers living some twenty-five miles apart. These bodies have since grown till they were large enough to form separate organizations. The company living seven miles from El Dorado was organized into a church known as the Pontiac church, numbering eleven members. My visit to Caldwell, Sumner Co., was of peculiar interest. Here Bro. Stevens labored about two weeks last winter. Since then others have been falling into rank until now they number fourteen Sabbath-keepers. Sabbath was devoted to spiritual gifts and health reform. As the result five laid aside their tobacco. May the Lord give them strength and heavenly grace to persevere. They sent for a club of five Instructors, one Review, one SIGNS, and ten Gems of Song. Aug. 22-24 we were with the brethren at Dry Creek, Saline county. They had heard the truth through the labors of Bro. and Sr. Enoch last winter. In the time that had elapsed since Bro. Enoch left them, an opposing minister had been preaching in their midst, and had succeeded in unsettling the minds of some in regard to organization. But God blessed our labors to their good, so that out of thirteen Sabbath-keepers in the place we organized a church of eleven members. Five of these were baptized, and two more made a start for the first time; making in all a church of thirteen members.