John Stage

Letter is John A. Vance, the writer, speculating that he was the first CHOG preachers to do gospel work in St. Louis through the distribution of literature and hosting prayer meetings circa 1897-1900. Vance also states the was the first to preach CHOG doctrine in Flat, MO from 1896-1897 as well as in Irvine, K where he operated a mission there for a year and a half from 1915-1916.

Letter is Charles A. Stage writing about his father, John L. Stage, and himself in a personal reflection with their relationship with CHOG. Charles wrote about remembering C.E. Brown as a young man in St. Louis. He stated that John Stage died in 1932 and that before his death, he was a subscriber of the Gospel Trumpet. The letter also mentions he went to Moundsville to work at the Gospel Trumpet in 1904 and then moved to Anderson and lived there until 1909.