Help! Help!! by M. E. Cornell

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1860

Help! Help!!

By M. E. Cornell

THE Northern Iowa tent will probably have to be laid by soon unless I can have help in preaching the word. When Bro. Brinkerhoof came I was much worn with constant labor and care without rest. I felt greatly relieved, but he has been called home on account of the ill health of his family, and does not expect to return. I have been now three weeks alone, and appear to be failing every day. In one or two instances I came near failing before I could finish the discourse I had begun. I am now obliged to take two or three hours rest in the day time in order to keep up, a necessity that never existed with me before. This is somewhat discouraging, but I cannot help it.

Cannot Bro. Loughborough come over and help us? I see by Review, accounts of meetings by some four or five different brethren in Wisconsin and Illinois, who have had success in the work. It would seem that a tent could be ably manned out there without foreign aid. There is no help here at all, not even a gift of exhortation.

The tent committee here think I need help, and they will fully justify this call.

If Bro. L. will come to Anamosa by the Dubuque Western R. R., the brethren will convey him the tent. Inquire for Wm. V. Field, at Anamosa, Jones Co., Iowa. M. E. CORNELL.

P. S. After writing the above, I read it to the church in Anamosa who were assembled on business, and they heartily approved it. M. E. C.