REPORT OF MEETINGS IN MICH.
By Joseph Bates
SEPTEMBER 25, Bro. William Carpenter took me from Jackson to Hanover. Here I held four meetings with the church on Sabbath and first-day, 26 and 27, which was encouraging and strengthening to those who love to walk in the way of God's commandments, and wait for the return of the Lord from the wedding. After the meeting, Bro. C. took me on a circuit of eighteen miles, to visit the scattered members and professed Sabbath-keepers. One, through trials and discouragements, had yielded up the truth, but confessed her wrongs, and promised to do and keep the commandments of God, and press on for salvation and eternal life, and have the REVIEW sent to her again. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, spent our time in visiting and holding nine meetings with the church and people at Hillsdale. On first-day we baptized seven, one of them Bro. W. Carpenter's son from Hanover. Five others joined the church in Hillsdale. The brethren were much encouraged, and especially strengthened in celebrating the ordinances of the Lord's house, and expressed their determinations to press forward, and be on their watch for the return of their Lord, lest he find them sleeping. JOSEPH BATES. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 21, 1868.