Evening List, One for your reading pleasure. Please take note that the last entry contains information not available in material of today with the congregations mentioned being "new" to history. Wayne Webb Editor: Brethren Roots Notes from our Correspondents. - Sister Catharine Eisenbise, of Morrill, Kan., wants to recommend Dr. Snyder's Kidney Balsam. She has tried it, and thinks it is a blessing to humanity. --From Bro. F. M. Day we learn that Bro. David Brower held a series of meetings in the Damascus school-house, Clackamas Co., Ore., commencing Jan. 28. There was good attendance and excellent interest. --Sister Emma Westfall, of Zionville, Hamilton Co., Kan., has been distributing the MESSENGER and the tract, "The House We Live In," and the people in her locality want to hear the Brethren preach. She says they are much interested in the doctrine. Who will fill this call? --Bro. Hiram Hylton, of Littlesburg, Mercer Co., W. Va., says there is a little band of about twenty members living at that place. They are without a minister. They rejoice to read the good news in the MESSENGER, of sinners coming to Christ, and they would like it very much if some of the brethren would come and preach for them. Cannot our brethren in Virginia fill this call ? -Bro. Henry Stuckly, of Garret, Ind., writes that he held a series of meetings at North Butler, Ind. The meetings were well-attended, and some good impressions were made. While at this place Bro. S. was called to the bedside of a sick man who desired to be baptized, but he was too weak, and died without attending to the ordinance. Another warning that it is dangerous to neglect the one thing needful. -Brethren Burwick and Tinkel, of Landess, Ind., visited the Brethren near Sycamore, Howard Co., Ind., Jan. 14, and preached for them in the Honey Creek school-house until the 16th. The house was crowded. The Brethren will build a meeting-house the coming summer. So reports Bro. S. L. Burwick. -Bro. Jacob Royer, of Essex, Iowa, reports an interesting series of meetings held in the Center school-house, two miles west of Essex, by Bro. Isaac Barto. He preached eleven sermons. The meetings were full of interest, and some are seemingly counting the cost. Hope they will unite with the people of God. . --From the Maple Valley church, Aurelia, Iowa, Bro. Wm. Leonard reports that Bro. Joseph Trostle held a few meetings for them, commencing Dec. 25. Two were baptized. Bro. Joseph Myers commenced meetings for them Jan. 11, and preached seven sermons. The Brethren were richly instructed and much encouraged. -Sister Mollie Keiser, . of the Vermillion church, Ill., writes that Bro. C. S. Holsinger preached seven sermons for them, commencing Jan. 25. The meetings were largely attended, the interest good and the order excellent. They have a large Sunday-school. They expected to hold another series of meetings the last of February. -We have a letter from Bro. Noah Long, of Frontier, Mich., which has been overlooked. He gives an account of a visit, in company with his wife, to Indiana, during which time they attended a number of love-feasts. We beg Bro. Long's pardon for the oversight in not referring to his letter sooner, and are sorry it escaped our notice. -From sister Lizzie VanScoyk we learn that a series of meetings was held in the Lower Miami church, O., beginning Dec. 28, and closing Jan. 12. Brethren Henry Gump and Samuel Coppock commenced the meetings, and afterwards the ministers in the neighboring churches carried them forward. The church was much encouraged. ---Bro. S. F. Sanger, of Bridgewater, Va., commenced a series of meetings in the Elk Run church, Augusta Co., Va., Feb. 5, continuing until the 16th. The attendance increased until the close, and good attention was paid to the word. Many were deeply impressed with the importance of coining to Christ. Four were added to the church by baptism. So reports Bro. R. F. Mowbray. -Bro. W. Hutchison sends us an account of his visit to Ohio. He met with the Brethren in Wyandot county on Christmas day, and commenced meetings. He found the church somewhat divided, but by his Labors, and with the Spirit of the Lord working with them, they were seemingly united when he left them, Jan. 8. Bro. James McMillen has charge of the church. Bro. H. closes by thanking the Brethren for their kindness to him, and also has a pleasant word for the children, who, by their acts of kindness, endeared themselves to him. -Bro. Joseph A. Miller, of the Beaver Creek church, Rockingham Co., Va., reports that the church at that place is making some progress. He, in company with Bro. Levi Miller, visited Randolph Co., W. Va., in September, and preached at Becky's Creek three days; they baptized two persons, one aged seventy-eight and the other eighty-one years. There are fifteen members at this place, with one deacon and no minister. They visited another small band of members about fifteen miles from Becky's Creek. They number twenty-one, with one minister and three deacons From the latter place they went to Clover Creek, spent two days with the Brethren there, and then returned home. The traveling was all done on horseback. Bro. Miller again visited Becky's Creek in October, and remained eleven days, preaching the Word. Five were baptized, and five more promised to come on the next trip. Our Virginia brethren are doing a good deal of missionary work of this kind. May the Lord bless their labors!

I suspect this is the minister Jacob Tinkel. His grandson, William Tinkel was a minister and professor of biology, Indiana University among other places. He was retired at the Union Grove Church of the Brethren, Muncie IN. As a young school teacher of science, I had an argument with him about Evolution and the Creation. He was one of the original Creationists in the nation. There was well over a hundred of us eating a church dinner in the basement at Union Grove, and it got absolutely quiet with everyone listening to us I was arguing as a "Theo-Evolutionist" (Genesis tells us the procedure of Evolution). Bro Tinkel made me want to dig a hole in the cement floor and bury myself. "Who do you think you are? to tell God - how He - did His Creation!" I am now for years a Creationist! - in other words - the Bible is Absolutely True! Merle C Rummel > -Brethren Burwick and Tinkel, of Landess, Ind., visited the Brethren near Sycamore, Howard Co., Ind., Jan. 14, and preached for them in the Honey Creek school-house until the 16th. The house was crowded. The Brethren will build a meeting-house the coming summer. So reports Bro. S. L. Burwick. >