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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1882

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 59, No. 11.

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Hillsdale Division

By D. H. Lamson; M. S. Burnham

Hillsdale Division.—The cause is prospering some in this part of the State. Meetings have been held in Camden and Jefferson; at the latter place, for five weeks continuously. The church has been revived, the Sabbath-school encouraged, and to both school and church numbers have been added. Several new families, husbands and wives together, have accepted the truth, and young people also. With but few exceptions, all the young persons at Jefferson are members of the church. Quite a number have not yet been baptized. We hope soon to attend to this duty.
At Camden we have had a severe struggle. The opposition on the part of some has been most bitter and unreasonable, but it is giving way to some extent. The schools here are kept open on the Sabbath, and not on Monday. So far we have been able to make a change in only one district. We are hopeful that in another district where our people are quite largely represented, a change will be made next term. In the town we can scarcely hope for a better state of things unless there is a change in the administration of affairs. This has quite largely affected our Sabbath-school. Our own people have patiently and cheerfully sacrificed their interest in the day school, though it is no small loss. We have appealed to the superintendent of public instruction, Mr. J. Cochran, and to Hon. T. M. Cooley, judge of the supreme court, both of whom have decided in our favor. This will help us.
Our Sabbath-school has numbered about twenty. The average attendance has been but six per cent during bad weather. Thirty copies of Instructor are taken.
The friends meet next Wednesday evening, March 8, to organize a legal society, and will immediately proceed to build a house of worship. It is to be a Seventh-day Adventist house, and not a union, as was at first proposed. They will build as they are able without getting in debt.
Our week-day and Sunday-evening congregations are still very large, sometimes more than we can well accommodate. We have still three churches to visit in this division, and will get to them as soon as possible. Some of these churches need help very much, and it is hard to decide where the need is greatest. We pray each day for wisdom to direct. D. H. LAMSON. M. S. BURNHAM.