Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate/Volume 1/Number 9/Letter to Oliver Cowdery from Harvey Green (May 15, 1835)

Extract of a Letter, dated, Clinton Co. (Ill.) May 15, 1835.

DEAR BROTHER—I again resume my pen to inform you of my mission, and the prospects of the great cause of God in this region. Since elder G. M. Hinkel and myself wrote last, we have baptized twenty-six, making in all one hundred and thirteen since we first came into this part of the country.

At a conference held here on the 25th of April, there were eight branches of the church represented, numbering one hundred and fifty-seven firm in the faith of the everlasting gospel. All the travelling elders from Missouri, left here soon after conference. Elders A. Lyman, E. Higbee, I. Higbee, and E. H. Groves, left here the 28th of April, and G. M Hinkle and G. Dykes, the 4th of May.

I have just visited the church that elder S. Carter built up, and found them rejoicing in the bonds of the new covenants: Four have been added since he left there. The prospect for the work to increase, is brightening. I have just received information from Green county, with a request to go there and preach;—also a request to preach in the vicinity of Troy—both of which I shall comply with. There are calls on the right hand and left, and I intend to labor with my might, for truly the Lord has crowned our labors in this section with success, and has preserved our health. Elder A. Gifford and W. Harris have just arrived, and are laboring, but will leave soon. I send you three new subscribers.

Your brother in Christ.

HARVEY GREEN.

TO OLIVER COWDERY, ESQ.