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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 2, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 24.

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GREENVILLE

By James White

The village of Greenville is situated in the southern part of Montcalm Co., Mich., twenty miles from Ionia, the nearest station on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad.
It is rapidly growing, and has already nearly 1000 inhabitants. It is surrounded by as good farming country as can be found in Michigan, and is also the head-quarters of the pine lumbering interests in that part of the State. Fruit, especially the apple, and the uncultivated raspberry, whortleberry, blackberry, and the cranberry, are in abundance.
Business of all kinds, especially farming, lumbering, and building, are lively, and mechanics of nearly all sorts can do better in that locality than in older portions of the State. And I would suggest to those who may regard it as a duty to move to Michigan, that Greenville is a better place than Battle Creek.
1. Because the church at Battle Creek is already too large, and does not need the help and strength of more members. At Greenville the church is small and weak, and needs the help of efficient additions to its numbers.
2. Because there is but little for so many to do in the Master's vineyard at Battle Creek, and much for the few to do in, and near, Greenville. Why should many crowd in to Battle Creek and die for want of spiritual exercise, and do no one any real good, when there is a chance to accomplish good elsewhere, and in doing this good to others, they may receive spiritual strength? Those who wish to come to Greenville may correspond with A. W. Maynard, J. Fargo, and E. Merrill. JAMES WHITE.