MICHIGAN by W. H. Littlejohn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 27, 1878

MICHIGAN

By W. H. Littlejohn

Labor among the Churches.

From June 7 to 10, inclusive, we were with the church in Otsego. On Friday evening and during the Sabbath, the weather was quite unfavorable because of the fall of rain; but our meetings, though small in point of numbers, were of interest and profit to those present. On Sunday the weather was favorable, and at our evening service the house of worship was well filled with citizens of the place, as the result of circulating a few small bills advertising our meetings.

We are becoming more and more satisfied that it does not pay to talk to empty benches, when, by putting forth a little effort and expending a few cents for paper and ink, we can obtain congregations of fair size. If what we preach is true, then the more persons we can influence to listen to it the greater will be the good accomplished.

On the morning of June 13 we took the cars for Leighton, where we remained until the following Monday. Having been disappointed in not obtaining the hall where we expected to hold our meetings, we withdrew to the Moline school-house, where we held services Sabbath and Sunday. The brethren put forth considerable effort to be present, some of them coming a distance of six or seven miles for that purpose. Our social meeting on the Sabbath was characterized by a good spirit, and quite a number of individuals not belonging to our denomination took part freely in the exercises, forgetting, for the time being, the differences in point of doctrine, and remembering only our unity in a common faith in Christ. On Sunday evening, at which time our closing meeting was held, the house was well filled with attentive listeners.

W. H. LITTLEJOHN.