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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 5, 1906

I. SANBORN

By I. SANBORN

Canada

W. H. Thurston, president of the Canadian Union Conference, and A. O. Burrill, president of the Ontario Conference, spent three days with the Seventh-day Adventist church in St. Thomas, June 8-10, and the church was much edified by their instruction.

Elder Thurston having received an invitation to labor for a while in the Quebec Conference, it was decided that I should accompany Elder Burrill. We went first to Selton, and held three meetings, June 11-13. The Friday before our arrival there, the place had been visited by a heavy rain- and wind-storm, which had done much damage to fences and groves, had torn up by the roots nearly all the apple-trees, and unroofed many barns. The effects of this storm gave us a good opportunity to present the signs of the times from the Word of God, and we had a good meeting.

June 14 we began meetings in Chatham. The believers here had just finished a neat little church, which was dedicated on the seventeenth. Elder E. K. Slade, president of the East Michigan Conference, joined us in these meetings,

and preached the dedicatory sermon. This church cost about five hundred dollars, and is free from debt. There are eighteen members in this company, only two of whom are men. We believe if they continue their earnest, humble, prayerful efforts among their neighbors, they may soon have additions to their numbers.

On the eighteenth Elders Burrill and Slade went to Detroit, and I returned to St. Thomas. I do praise our Heavenly Father through his beloved Son Jesus Christ, who died for our sins, that he has made this threefold message so plain that children can understand it.