p. 62 | Shiawassee Co., Mich by J. O. Corliss

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

Shiawassee Co., Mich.

By J. O. Corliss

SINCE our last report, we have tried to follow up the work in Clare Co.; but the season for lumbering coming on, we deemed it best to go to a more open country; and accordingly started for Bay Co. Here, Bro. Haskins was called home on business, and I was left alone. I labored in the town of Williams, two weeks, which I think was not wholly lost. On account of the cold and stormy weather, the outside attendance was not large; but a good impression seems to be left on the minds of the people, and a great amount of prejudice is removed. Four expressed a desire to go with us, and three of them took a firm stand upon the truth. Others seem to be interested, and were the right kind of influence exerted over them, might possibly be drawn into the truth.

From Williams, I went to Thomastown, in Saginaw Co., where I gave ten discourses, after which Bro. H. rejoined me, and we decided that the interest in that place would not warrant our stay; so we started for Shiawassee Co., and have commenced a course of lectures in a small settlement, familiarly known as Shi-town, two miles south-west from Vernon. The people appear to be intelligent, and listen with marked attention to the word spoken.

Bro. H. will probably commence meetings this week in an adjoining district, and try his hand alone. May the Lord prosper his work, and may his servants be fitted to stand in the place where he would have them.

J. O. CORLISS.