MICHIGAN by John B. Frisbie

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 4.

MICHIGAN

By John B. Frisbie

ATTENDED the Jackson monthly meeting, held in the Christian meeting-house the first Sabbath in June. There was a general attendance of the friends around. I spoke to them about an hour. We then went to the river, where seventeen were baptized, the most of them from Spring Arbor, where Bro. Daniels had been laboring. The Lord has blessed his labors there.

Bro. R. Sawyer attended this meeting, and we went from Jackson to West Liberty, where he organized a Tract and Missionary Society. We also went to Spring Arbor and did the same.

The next Sabbath I met the church in the township of Green, Mecosta Co. Here a church of twenty-four members was fully organized. An elder was ordained, and s. b. pledged for the coming year to the amount of $64; though the members were not all present. I baptized four. Two have received letters, and two who have not united are keeping the Sabbath; so the cause is prospering in the midst of some opposition.

The following Sabbath I visited Deerfield, where I first preached some twelve years ago. A few are yet holding on to the truth. It rained most all the time, so the church did not all get together. I believe they number in all eighteen. I gave two discourses at Lake View. I staid with the elder of the church, Bro. Collard, who has been made to rejoice by seeing his family converted, under the labors of Bro. Burrill and Fargo.

The fourth Sabbath I visited Cedar Springs. Found a little company, mostly sisters. They had no leader; sister Mary Stiles holds all the offices in the church except that of elder. She is faithful in keeping the s. b. and T. & M. Society books. I baptized four who united with the church, and one was admitted by letter. They appointed a leader. There are now about fifteen members. I hope they will keep up meetings. I preached at father Richmond’s house several times. I staid over Monday to visit the sick and some delinquents.

Tuesday I returned to Jackson, and learned that Bro. E. P. Daniels had the tent set up near the Free Methodist College, where they were busy in keeping all they could away from the meetings. It rained most all the time, and ended in a gale; and harvest and haying were coming on. We concluded to move into a small village called Baldwin, ten miles southwest from Jackson. We have the tent set up in a very pleasant place, and have had two meetings, with appointments out for a week ahead.

J. B. FRISBIE.

Baldwin, Mich., July 8, 1876.