p. 174 | Meetings in Michigan by Joseph Bates

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 14, 1871

Meetings in Michigan.

By Joseph Bates

SEPTEMBER 29 to Oct. 3, visited and held six meetings with the church in Cedar Springs. They are encouraged to press forward in the message, and are preparing to put them up a convenient house of worship.

Bro. I. Olmstead’s team brought us to Greenville Oct. 4. Visited the Danish settlement and had an interesting meeting with our Danish brethren.

Oct. 5–10, with the church at Fairplains. Meetings on the Sabbath and celebrating the ordinances were encouraging and deeply interesting. Brethren and sisters from Orleans, Orange, Bushnell, and the Danish settlement united with them and were blessed of the Lord.

Oct. 10 and 11, held evening meetings with the church in Bushnell. Bro. P. Strong was there and took an active part in the meetings and visiting and praying with the brethren in their families. The Lord strengthen them to still press forward and be overcomers.

The 12th to the 17th, had good, encouraging meetings with the church in Orleans. Bro. Strong was with us here also. Brethren and sisters from Fairplains, Vergennes, and Orange, were there and all seemed in earnest to press forward in the good work of the Lord.

The 17th to the 23d, with the church in Orange. Visited the Sabbath-keeping families in Portland. Sabbath and first-day the Orange church had appointed to meet with their scattered members at Sebewa. Here we held seven meetings and celebrated the ordinances. Some were strengthened to renew their choice and go forward. One was baptized.

JOSEPH BATES. Monterey, Oct. 29, 1871.