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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 27, 1879

Peninsula, Summit Co., Feb. 17.—We closed our meetings in Solon and commenced here a week ago. We occupy the town hall, and find a home with a S. D. Baptist family that have embraced the truth. Last Sabbath an old gentleman and his wife kept the day for the first time. Last night the hall was crowded.

In Solon six persons signed the covenant, and others will do so hereafter. We organized a Sabbath-school of twenty-five members. They are discarding tobacco, pork, tea, and coffee, and a desire to work is manifested. R. A. UNDERWOOD. E. H. GATES.

Corsica, Feb. 17.—Notwithstanding the hard times, our subscription for the meeting-house is large enough to warrant us in taking steps to hold it legally, and the brethren are gathering the material with a commendable zeal; and, no providence preventing, in a few months we shall have a house to preach the third message in. Being shut out of all public places, we thought it best to begin meetings in the country three miles from the village. We are having a good hearing.

Our last Sabbath meeting was very encouraging. We organized a class of thirty members, and there are ten or twelve more to come in. Yesterday the Sabbath-school was organized. Everything bids fair for a strong church here. Bro. Mann has been absent nearly a week, on account of sickness. Ohio presents very interesting and promising fields of labor. Everywhere we go the people are ripe for this truth. Thus far we have obtained thirty-nine subscribers for our periodicals. A. O. BURRILL.