p. 126 | Meetings in Michigan by Joseph Bates

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 5, 1870

Meetings in Michigan.

By Joseph Bates

SABBATH, Feb. 26, held interesting meetings with the church in Wright. The 27th, Bro. Root's team took me to Blendon, where, on the 27th and 28th, I held four meetings in two districts. The brethren were much encouraged to go forward and overcome.

March 1 and 2, held four meetings with the church in Allendale. This church had been laboring under some discouragements. Bro. E. H. Root, S. A. McPherson, and J. L. Edgar, from Wright, met with us. The Lord blessed their labors, and strengthened the discouraged ones to press onward in the message.

March 3, I visited Cooperville, where there are four families of Sabbath-keepers. March 4, Bro. McPherson took me to Casnovia, some eleven miles. Here, with the church, and ten teams loaded with brethren and sisters from Wright, we held seven meetings and celebrated the ordinances of the Lord's house. The Lord blessed and strengthened his people. Bless his holy name!

Monday, the 7th inst., Bro. Higley gave me a pleasant sleigh ride of twenty-four miles, to Grand Rapids.

From March 8 to 21, had the pleasure of attending a series of important meetings with the church in Battle Creek, with tried friends of the cause from the wide

harvest field; following which, came the Anniversary Week, in which were held the yearly meetings of the S. D. Adventists, such as the General and Michigan State Conferences, Publishing Association, Health Reform Institute, and Missionary Society. The business sessions and deliberations in these meetings were harmonious and pleasant. A good spirit and influence pervaded them all, as has been justly stated in the report given in REVIEW, of March 22.

JOSEPH BATES.

Monterey, Mich., March 26, 1870.