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The Cause in Michigan

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 1.

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The Cause in Michigan.

By J. H. Waggoner

THERE is much misapprehension abroad in regard to the cause in Michigan. Many suppose that because this State stands central in the work, and the Publishing Office is here, everything here is prosperous and flourishing, and all the wants of the cause are supplied. This is a great mistake. In many parts of Michigan the cause is languishing for want of help. We have a larger number of preachers than any other Conference, but our Conference is large, embracing Michigan and Indiana, and our preachers are generally sent away to supply calls in other fields. Two are on the General Conference Committee, and cannot be depended on for local labor; one has gone to Missouri; one is in New England; one is in Ohio; and thus our efficient force is exhausted, with little or no labor in the State. No better openings, nor more urgent calls, are found in any State than in this; but if they are supplied here, and others neglected, there are too often complaints raised, and so other fields are supplied, and this neglected. I do not say this should not be so, but it is well that the facts should be known.
As I stated last March, Tuscola County now presents an excellent field for labor, and the calls are urgent. Lapeer is crying for help. Oakland is in pressing need, if indeed it can be helped. Genoa, in Livingston Co., has long had promises of labor, and they now say they will pay the whole expenses of a tent meeting if requested—only send the tent and the preachers. And so I might continue to enumerate.
Now what shall be done? Cannot the Committee at their meeting soon to take place, review their forces, and arrange for more efficient labor in this State? Cannot the large number of credentials and licenses issued by this Conference command more, and more efficient, service than is now received? I think they should. Again I ask, What shall be done?
J. H. WAGGONER.
Holly, June 13, 1870.