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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 7.

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Flint, Feb. 3.—I resumed meetings here last Wednesday. Have spoken five times. The interest is deeper than I thought it was when I left. Last night the house was full of attentive hearers. G. V. KILGORE.
Hampton and Cedar Falls.—I labored at Hampton about a week, and think some good was done. Sold Danish books to the value of $1.00, and obtained one new subscriber for the Tidende. This is the first copy of the Tidende ever taken in this place.
I held eight meetings with the church at Cedar Falls, Jan. 22 to 27. These were held at three different places, so as to call in the neighbors. The condition of this church is improving. Some of the members have made an excellent start during the past six months. As the elder has left, I ordained a brother to fill his place. JOHN F. HANSON.
Onawa, Jan. 30.—I am now at home, but have been laboring in Guthrie and Greene counties. The opposition was strong, but the Lord worked, and some good people came out on the truth. A prominent Disciple minister gave five discourses on the subject of the Sabbath. He took the position that the law was nailed to the cross, and the new law came in force at Pentecost. Thus the world was fifty days without any law! Then he said the Sabbath was a type of the rest that remains to the people of God after the Judgment. I asked him if the type did not reach to the antitype, if the shadow did not reach to the substance. Last winter the Congregationalists permitted us to use their meeting-house, which is two miles from my home in Onawa. But Bro. McCoy preached in it, and exerted so great an influence over some of the members of the Congregational church that the minister refused to let us use the house. Their refusal causes considerable disturbance in the church. We are now trying to get the school-house, as the people here want me to hold meetings with them. I wish Bro. McCoy could come here and preach. The people were very much interested in his discourses. J. BARTLETT.