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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 12.

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Tuscola, Michigan.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THURSDAY, Feb. 23, in company with Bro. Fisher, I came to Tuscola after an absence of five years. Here was one of the brightest spots in all my labors. For many reasons the friends here always seemed specially dear to me. The parting meeting five years ago was a marked and touching one. Now as I went from house to house, and inquired after the old friends, we were often melted to tears. What a change these five years have made! Some are sleeping, some have turned back, and others have become cold and silent in the blessed cause. All this is sad. On the other hand, new ones have been raised up, weak ones have become strong, and nearly all have improved much. Could we have known then what we know now, what errors and sad mistakes some of us might have avoided, and none more than I. But God is good and merciful, and we will still trust in him.
Nearly all the Sabbath-keepers in the county were present. Bro. Cornell's recent lectures seem to have done considerable good. Hope he may go to Cairo. I felt the solemn, convicting Spirit of God upon me in preaching, and the word took effect. Several backsliders returned to the Lord with confession, and more than a dozen youth and children came forward for prayers. We had also a good attendance from without.
The brethren and sisters here need to launch out into deeper waters and get more of the spirit, life, and power, of free salvation. Their prayers and testimonies are too weak and feeble. They are burying their talents. Yet they seem to have the root of the matter in them, and love the truth fervently. On the whole, we had a profitable meeting. I left the place feeling much better and more hopeful than for a long time before. May God keep us till the Lord comes. D. M. CANRIGHT.
P. S. By the advice of the Gen. Conf. Committee, Bro. Littlejohn and myself are to return to this county to labor with the tent this season. We hope the friends will seek God for his blessing upon our labors. D. M. C.