Sketch of Meetings by John Byington

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1867

Sketch of Meetings.

By John Byington

SABBATH and first-day, Dec. 22, I was with the church in Parkville. By removal and deaths, their number is quite reduced and the few much scattered, which makes it difficult for them to sustain meetings at their pleasant house of worship. They attended to their legal appointment of Trustees, and we hope some faithful brethren will be raised up or move to Parkville to aid them in spiritual things.

Sabbath, Jan. 5, 1867, I attended Monthly Meeting at Burlington. It was stormy, and but few from abroad; but all we had room for, as our meeting was held in a private house. I hope they will succeed in getting up a house of worship. I spoke to them from the last two verses in the Old Testament. How much indifference parents manifest in regard to the salvation of their children.

I had a pleasant interview the night of the 15th, with sister Bellows and her family in the town of Clarence, Calhoun Co. She is alone here. Perhaps some laborer whose work is in new places can do good here.

We were last evening with the church in Tompkins, on our way to Genoa.

J. BYINGTON.

Tompkins, Jan. 17, 1867.