| 645 and it was decreed that the church could not legally take possession because of failure to enter suit in time. Thus the case now stands with equitable title in the Reorganization, and the "Church of Christ" in possession.
This organization is, and ever has been, weak in numerical strength, numbering at the present writing less than two hundred communicants. The first volume of the Truth Teller, ending with June, 1865, was published in the place of its first issue. The January number, 1865, was the first to contain the name of Granville Hedrick as editor. Its publication was renewed at Independence, Missouri, in June, 1868, but it did not long survive. During the last few years they have issued a small paper called the Searchlight. This was discontinued with the April number, 1900, and in May they published the first number of the Evening and Morning Star, claiming it was the resuscitation of the paper of that name published in Independence in an early time, and discontinued in 1833.
Of late there have been some conferences through committees, between the Reorganization and Church of Christ, known as the Hedrickites, accounts of which will appear in their time in history.
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