Work in Grand Rapids and Sparta
By G. A. Carlstedt
Grand Rapids, and Sparta, Kent Co., Jan. 20.—I held fourteen meetings at Grand Rapids, and also visited the Swedish families in the city, and some of other nationalities, and distributed about a thousand pages of tracts, besides pamphlets and papers. Obtained one more subscriber to the Herald, with premium. Several acknowledged the Sabbath, but have not yet, to my knowledge, commenced to keep it. I came to Sparta the tenth. There is a Swedish settlement here of about one hundred families, most of whom belong to the Lutheran church. Their minister is our sworn enemy. Yesterday I held two meetings, one in Swedish and the other in English, with fair congregations. On both occasions they voted to have the meetings continue. G. A. CARLSTEDT.