Michigan by George W. Amadon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1911

Michigan

By George W. Amadon

Benton Harbor.— In Benton Harbor and St. Joseph there is a small company of Sabbath-keepers, and from eighteen to twenty usually meet for worship on the Sabbath in the small chapel in Benton Harbor. They have Sabbath-school, although there is only a ten-year-old boy to represent the children. Three brethren besides myself compose the male members. Nearly the entire company attend the Sabbath-school; but of these there are only three young sisters to represent the young people. There is no elder in the church, but we have a deacon and a church clerk, also the leading Sabbath-school officers. A capable and devoted brother, who formerly held his membership here, has gone to North Carolina to assist in a small industrial school in the mountainous district.

The company here is not often visited by any minister, so they have managed matters as well as they could in their somewhat lonely condition. When I came, they seemed very much pleased that some one was to be with them to help in church work. Sabbaths I have taken twenty minutes or more in giving talks on some prominent feature of the faith.

I came to St. Joseph as an invalid, but it is wonderful how my strength has returned since coming here. I have not the least semblance of heart difficulty, and often walk two or three miles without so much as thinking whether I have short breath or not. The Lord has done great things for me, whereof I can not help being glad. Ps. 126: 2, 3. May God bless his work everywhere.

G. W. AMADON.