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Report from Bro. Canright

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 19, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 3.

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Report from Bro. Canright.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

I MET with the friends at Tuscola according to appointment. Found them all doing well and much encouraged to go forward. They have bought them a meeting-house formerly owned by the Wesleyans. We gave them a lecture on health. It was well received and nearly all see the importance of a reform and have already begun it to a considerable extent. We only need to caution them not to make the change too rapidly lest it injure them.
The little church at Vassar are pressing forward in harmony and good order. They all seem ready to step out upon the light as fast as they receive it. We hope that they will always continue of the same mind. One was added to the church.
We had a very pleasant meeting with the church at Watrousville. Unity, zeal, and order appear among them so far. May God keep them so to the end. They are now building a meeting-house. Most of them are poor in this world's goods hence it is quite an undertaking for them. But all are united in the matter and this will help them much. They have most of the material and can do all the work among themselves. Even the sisters concluded that they must help forward this work of God. But how could they help? Of course they could not work on the building, and if they subscribed money, in most cases their husbands would have it to pay. But they proved the old saying true, "Where there is a will there is a way." They concluded to weave a hundred yards of rag carpet and sell it for the benefit of the meeting-house. Each one furnished a few pounds of carpet rags and a few shillings to buy the warp with, while others wove the carpet. This readily sold for one dollar per yard. Thus they will raise $100 in money which is quite an item with them.
On Sabbath, June 2, the churches from Vassar and Centerville met with us at Watrousville. We had a pleasant, and we hope, a profitable meeting. The Resolutions on Dress are attracting the attention of the sisters now. I think that most of them will readily adopt them and we hope that all will soon. We leave these churches in a prosperous condition, praying that the Good Shepherd will lead them through to the kingdom.
Monday, June 4, Bro. Spooner brought me to East Saginaw where I took the boat intending to go around on the water to Buffalo. D. M. CANRIGHT. Lake Huron, June 6, 1866.