REPORT FROM BRO. MATTESON.
By John Matteson
Since the 16th of November I have held meetings here in Stanton as often as circumstances would permit. We occupied the school-house which is a very convenient place for meeting, but we can have it only five times a week. The preaching has been well attended although the ministers have tried their best to prevent it. Yet the current of private opposition is very strong, and much more good could be done if this was not the case. They have their prayer-meetings, and class-meetings, and socials, and oyster-suppers, and church-fairs, &c.; yet the house has generally been pretty well filled with respectable hearers.6 There are a few Sabbath-keepers living here, and a few more have embraced the Sabbath since the meetings. We have meetings on the Sabbath and a weekly prayer-meeting. The Lord has blessed us so far. Pray for us that we may have strength to continue to labor patiently in this good cause; and that souls may be converted, and saved at the coming of Christ. I am thankful for the letters I have received from brethren in different places. Please excuse me from answering them at present. My health is such that I cannot do any more in that line than attend to the interest of the cause right here. Many thanks to the brethren in Riceland, Minn. If the Lord is willing I will continue to labor here in Michigan for some time to come. I do daily inquire of the Lord, and trust that he will make known to me the path of duty. When made known I will strive to walk in it. This I know will be best for my own interest and that of my fellowmen. May the Lord bless the dear brethren, and help you to walk consistently, to obey the truth, and live with reference to the Judgment, that if not before, we may meet when Jesus comes. Stanton, Montcalm Co., Mich. Dec. 18, 1868.