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K. Brubaker. The latter was from Rohrerstown, Pennsylvania, and his meetings were well attended. That there was much to be done is seen in this sentence of the report:

There are at this place still many souls who are without a Savior: especially among the young people and here as elsewhere there is a great tendency for our young people to be drawn from this narrow way by many different snares and temptations."

Currents of revival continued to flow into Ohio from outside the state. After the above J. K. Brubaker of Rohrerstown, Pennsylvania, held meetings at Wadsworth a correspondent wrote: "May God bless the dear brethren in the East for the good work they are doing in sending brethren to the West, by which showers of blessings have been received."' A year later he returned and preached twentyone sermons at Leetonia, Oberholtzer's, Metzler's, and East Lewistown. There was "deep interest," with persons attending from other denominations. "

Among the other out-of-state evangelists was Gabriel Heatwole of Rockingham County, Virginia. Accompanied by Adam Brenneman and Ira J. Buckwalter he held meetings in 1895 at Sonnenberg and as a result,

We were cheered by this visit, the hearts that were softened, the tears that stole down so many cheeks, may they make us more earnest and active in this Christian work and prayer.''

S. G. Shetler of the Johnstown area in Pennsylvania held meet
ings as early as 1902 near Columbiana in the Woodville schoolhouse
and at East Lewistown." Fourteen persons responded by confessing
Christ. Shetler returned to this community in later years and con
tinued to preach sermons that were "impressive" and "powerful."
In western Ohio the small congregation in Putnam County at
Blanchard "experienced quite an awakening" in 1905 as a result
of meetings by L. J. Lehman of Cullom, Illinois, and M. S. Steiner of
Columbus Grove, Ohio.'' Nineteen persons "came out on the Lord's
side." This congregation had been without a resident pastor for near

ly twenty years and its small membership of forty-five was in need of leadership.

In 1906 it was reported that the Amish meetinghouse at Lockport in western Ohio had fifteen meetings by D. J. Johns of Indiana and that twenty-seven persons "decided for Christ. "'0

Amos D. Wenger of Millersville, Pennsylvania, was important