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appointed. This meeting was interesting and profitable. It appeared
small when compared with our camp meetings in other states, as
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there were only about one hundred brethren and sisters present. It
was designed for a general gathering of the scattered ones. Some
were present from southern Kansas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri,
Nebraska, and Tennessee. At this meeting my husband joined me, and
from here, with Elder Haskell and our daughter, we went to Dallas,
Texas.
Visit to Texas
Thursday we went to Brother McDearman’s at Grand Prairie. Here
our daughter met her parents, brother, and sister, who had all been
brought near to the door of death by the fever which prevailed in the
state during the past season. We took great pleasure in ministering
to the wants of this afflicted family, who had in years past liberally
assisted us in our affliction.
We left them, somewhat improved in health, to attend the Plano
camp meeting. This meeting was held November 12-19. The weather
was fine at the commencement; but it soon began to rain, and this,
with high winds, prevented a general attendance from the surround-
ing country. Here we were happy to meet our old friends, Elder R.
M. Kilgore and wife. And we were highly pleased to find a large
and intelligent body of brethren on the ground. Whatever prejudices
have existed here against people from the North, nothing of the kind
appeared among these dear brethren and sisters.
My testimony was never received more readily and heartily than by
this people. I became deeply interested in the work in the great State
of Texas. It has ever been Satan’s object to preoccupy every important
field; and probably he has never been more busily employed at the
introduction of the truth in any state than he has been in Texas. This
is the best evidence to my mind that there is a great work to be done
here.
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