The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-15

zone In the way or revival meetings,
D The town has been prompt in the
: support of the pastor, bat the eoun-
5 try lsgs and leaves the preacher to
foot The bill.
). Hartford has siz appointments.
e VIM. Robertson Pastor. This has
: the elements OF q first class work,
IL they could only be induced to
e take advance ground and keep up
3 with the times and do things on
time. Some success has been had in
: protracted meetings but no extern
e sive revival. They worship iii the
Seminary Chapel and are sometimes
prevented from extra efforts by the
chapel being occupied.
Williamsburg has four appoint
ments I. @. Ross was appointed to
/. this work, and on going to it he
failed TO find a house that he was
willing to live Inland tho official
board being unwilling TO have the
services of nonresident pastor,
he asked q release which they grant
. ed, and by formal vote exonerated
him from blame in leaving. BY the
advise of the official board, / en-
ployed A. G. Turner local preacher
living in circnit. to take charge. He
has filed the appointments, held
some protracted meetings and had
some success. This is good circuit
If well handled.
i Eureka has seven appointments.
AZ. Fenimore Pastor. The demand
for labor on this work is more than
one man can meet. The town needs
the entire time of one man. Dur
Ing the past year they have been
prompt in paying their share of the
support while the country fell be-
hind. They want two preachers
next year. and the country prom
ises to do better. os - "a
LIE Roy has four appointments, a
church and parsonage. j. E.. Cob
enour was sent to this work and
started off with fine prospects, but
soon got into trouble and finally
left the country in disgrace. Then
| procured the services of . local
preacher from the bounds of Rock
River Conference, who has 1abored
faithfully half the year and has had
some success. Financially the town
is prompt while the country lags.
Coyville is a circuit that I found
lying on the Verdigris River in the
north end of Wilson county. They
| reported to me 150 members and
four local preachers. By some |
strange oversight they had been left |
Oft the minutes. At their request |
employed local preacher by the
| name of earns to take charge of the
work. He labored for while and
then fell sick, and despairing of |
being able TO preach again soon, if |
ever, gave up the work. then in
vited Mark Robertson, q superanu- |
ate of our Conference, to take the |
work. He has labored faithfully |
and with good degree of success
up 20 the close of the year. The |
work as found it had five appoint |
ments. By the advice of Brother |
M. Robertson l employed q local |
preacher by the name of James |
skinner to hunt up some unoccu- |
pied territory lying between Coy
vile and Neosho Falls. He labored |
one quarter and reported progress |
and ten cents on salary. At the end |
of the next quarter he reported |
$1,000 on salary and nine appoint
ments, with classes at each. II
thought it best to connect this with |
COyviIIe, which gives them fourteen
appointments. They want two
preachers next year. 80 l-.l
Eldorauo has seven appointments. [
S. L. Roberts, who came to us from
the United Brethren, was sent to
this work. paid him his mission
airy money in advance and the
brethren at Eldorado got up q do
nation and raised about two hun
dred dollars before he got to the
work. But when he got on the
ground aud commenced operations
they come to the conclusion that
Nasty did in New York, that their |
opening had been entirely too gOr-
geous. The brethren in the country |
thought they could find work
enough for him, and were willing 1
TO pay him. I then arranged with
d. S. Knowls, a local preacher, and
E. Snow, a superanuete, of New
England, to fill the pulpit in town
aud let Brother Roberts take the /
country. The pulpit in town has
been regularly filled, but in the
country there has not been much
done either by preacher or people:
Lyndon and Usage City has six |
appointments. o. 81. Call, pastor.
The church is weak, both financially |
and numerically. They have a |
small church at Lydon. There has |
been some revival at one or two
points. - i2t
Quenemo s. Pomona has six ap-
pointments, w. Burlington, pastor.
The work is weak financially, being
in the Usage reserve where they are
making farms to get money to pay
| for the land. They had some re-
| vival at their campmeeting and
some good done in their protracted
meetings. They have their church
at Quenemo inclosed and SO they
can use it in warm weather. BY
some oversight in our church extern
sion board, they got one hundred
] dollars, it being the only favor. of
the kind ever enjoyed by South
| western Kansas. -
+ Wichita and Sedgwick City has
six appointments covering terri
tory as large as the state of Rhode
Island. NJ. NJ. Hauu, pastor. Ow-1
! ing 10 the difficulty of moving and
settling his family on his claim the
first quarter was well advanced be-
i fore he got to work. This soured
some of the Wichita folks: others
soured on his plain preaching.
Owing to this and the difficulty in
securing suitable places for worship
during the long cold winter, not
much has been done. The results
are not satisfactory to preacher OF
people.
4 Toronto has three preaching
+ places and has been supplied by n.
+. Upton. There are few good
people on this work, but they are
, too weak to support q preacher.
; Ottumwa had three appointments
i. at he beginning of the year, and
+ affairs of the charge were in very
demoralized condition. With the
consent of the official Board, en-
, ployed r. R. Brady to assist Bro.
| Kline. and directed that the unoc-
I cupied country around be canvass
ed aud appointments made where
: ever there was q prospect Of doing
/ good. They now have ten preach
F ing places and have had some re-
viz ais at one or two points. There
: is q small house of worship at
; hamden on this work.
8 Augusta and Douglas has four
q appointments, which have been
r supplied by c. A. Slime, q local
e preacher living on the work. Ow-
# ing TO the want Of support and sick
I'll ness, he has done little more than
preach on the Sabbath. 81
2 Meridian City is place yet to be
. made; when made it is supposed
J. TO lay in Sumner county. west Of
r the Arkansas River. On my first
!. visit to this work, held quarterly
) meeting at Bell Plain and organized
d class, . quarterly conference, and
! q board OF trustees; and got church
il under way which has since been
!. inclosed and is in condition to use
IS in warm weather. W. n. ZeIlere,
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