Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . to Bro. J. H. Morris. This includes fi_,. „~„r cioffl„ k,,+ io „„pt, „ 4.^ a» also the article on The Little Missionary Page. the new Mates, but IS pushing to the 392 The Missionary Visiter front in education. Why should it notreligiously? It is sixteenth in size inthe United States. Besides that, ourDistrict includes Panhandle of Texasand New Mexico. The District meas-ures about seven hundred miles inlength and three hundred miles inwidth. It contains more than one hun-dred thousand square miles of terri-tory. We havent enough workers inthis large field. Will
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . to Bro. J. H. Morris. This includes fi_,. „~„r cioffl„ k,,+ io „„pt, „ 4.^ a» also the article on The Little Missionary Page. the new Mates, but IS pushing to the 392 The Missionary Visiter front in education. Why should it notreligiously? It is sixteenth in size inthe United States. Besides that, ourDistrict includes Panhandle of Texasand New Mexico. The District meas-ures about seven hundred miles inlength and three hundred miles inwidth. It contains more than one hun-dred thousand square miles of terri-tory. We havent enough workers inthis large field. Will you be one tofill up the vacancy? We acknowledge our indebtednessto the many who have so kindly as-sisted in the preparation of the differ-ent articles and arranging and copy-ing same for publication. If you read these articles for mis-takes you may find plenty to criticise,but that is not what they were writtenfor. They call me a tenderfoot inOklahoma ; hence excuse many of themistakes on that account. Hoping this. will do more than whet up your criticalfaculties, I beg to remain, J. H. Morris. THE FIRST ELDER IN OKLAHOMA Jacob Appleman [By a. great deal of persuasion we gotthese rich things from Bro. Appleman. Hecould tell many more if space permitted.—J. H. M.] In the fall of 1891, in company withEld. J. H. Neher (Hudson, 111.), I cameto what is now known as ParadisePrairie church. Here we held a seriesof meetings in a little log house being small, people couldnot find room inside, so they built fireson the outside and opened the win-dows in order to hear. The interestwas good and a number were added tothe church. In the following AugustI was sent by the Mission Board ofSouthern Kansas (Oklahoma then be-longed to Southern Kansas) to organ-ize the little band of brethren and sis- ters at Clarkson, Okla. The letters ofsixteen or eighteen members werehanded in. The church was organizedand they_ chose the name ParadisePrairie church. (One of the st
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