MEETINGS IN MICHIGAN by Joseph Bates

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1868

MEETINGS IN MICHIGAN.

By Joseph Bates

AFTER closing my series of meetings in Hillsdale, as by last report, I accepted a kind, voluntary offer, from Bro. I. C. Vaughn, to take me in his carriage some fourteen miles to Ransom Center, where I was received and kindly cared for at the dwelling of Bro. and Sr. A. J. Emans, who have kept their house fitted up for the special purpose of holding religious social meetings with their brethren and sisters. The church are now erecting a neat and convenient meeting-house, pleasantly located in the village, which will accommodate from two to three hundred hearers.

During our stay in Ransom Center, from Oct. 6-12, visiting from house to house, some expressed their regret at not being prepared to attend the good camp-meeting held in Wright. All seemed anxious to be benefited by the light on present truth, which was presented there. We hope they will. While there we held seven interesting meetings with them, and were much blessed in the celebration of the ordinances of the Lord's house. Five were buried with Christ by baptism, and received into the church. Our last meeting was well attended, and books and tracts were readily accepted. We hope they will be carefully read.

October 13, came by railroad to Burr Oak. Brethren from Sturgis and Colon and vicinity were gathering. During this and the following day, we held four profitable meetings, and three persons were baptized. Two of them were received as new members into the church. Bro. D. M. Canright's mother was one of them. Thence, I passed by railroad and stage to visit the churches in Northern Indiana.

JOSEPH BATES.

Monterey, Nov. 2, 1868.