MONTHLY MEETING IN ALLEGAN CO., MICH.
By Joseph Bates
This meeting was held with the church in Allegan, and was the largest gathering of any one of the kind we have ever witnessed in this place. After the morning prayer meeting, followed by a discourse from Bro. P. Strong, some brief remarks were made relative to our good meetings, and adopted resolutions in our General Conference just closed at Battle Creek. Especially the preamble and resolution offered by Bro. J. N. Andrews in which the whole congregation of believers so unanimously united with Bro. White in confession of our sins. See Advent Review, Vol. xxix, No. 24, pp. 282, 284. The following resolution was then presented: “Resolved, that we are in union with, and heartily desire to participate in, the sentiments embraced in the preamble and resolution adopted at our late General Conference relative to our recent seasons of fasting and prayer, and afterward failing to give God the glory for what he had done for us.” On the adoption of the resolution we all engaged in solemn prayer, and humbly besought the Lord's forgiveness, and pardoning mercy. Our next County Monthly Meeting will be held in Pine Creek, Otsego. I thank the Lord for the good spirit of union and harmony which was manifest not only in all our meetings for worship, but in all our business meetings at the General Conference just closed. If the good resolutions which were so unanimously adopted be carried out in the spirit of them by us as a people, then may we not hope, “if we follow on to know the Lord, his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”