p. 144 | Battle Creek, Mich

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 9, 1878

Battle Creek, Mich.

SABBATH, April 27, was a day of interest to the Battle Creek church. At the general social meeting one hundred and fifty-seven spoke in one hour and ten minutes. At the celebration of the ordinances it was found necessary to separate the church into two divisions. Six of the thirteen classes of which the church is composed, met in the evening at the commencement of the Sabbath, and the seven remaining classes in the evening after the Sabbath. The house was filled on each occasion with as many as could be comfortably accommodated. To suitably provide, on such occasions for the number of Sabbath-keepers already in Battle Creek, a house of worship having double the capacity of the present building is needed.