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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1872

J. BYINGTON

By J. Byington

Michigan.

Oct. 26, at Hastings. It being rainy, there were but few to meeting. I spent the 25th in visiting and trying to help a family who for many years have professed the truth, but whose feet, of late, have well-nigh slipped. By conversing freely with them, and getting them to meeting, I think they are encouraged and will overcome.

Nov. 2 and 3, at Burlington. This quarterly meeting was a very good one. The Spirit of the Lord was present to help. Unexpectedly, Bro. Lamson was with us, and labored in word and doctrine. Here I found a family that had not been to meeting for some time; but by going to their house, and encouraging them, again they came to meeting and took a part in the exercises. I felt something like the man in the parable, with the lost sheep on his shoulder. But few would fall back if all would do their duty.