Grand Traverse, Mich by D. W. Milk

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1874

Grand Traverse, Mich.

By D. W. Milk

My meetings were cut short with the friends at Monroe Center, March 29 and Feb. 1, on account of the M. E. quarterly meeting coming at the same time.

I spoke twice and held one business meeting, helping Bro. Trotman organize a T. and M. Society, in which all present took part. Their love for, and interest in, the truth is commendable. Even their bitterest enemies have to acknowledge that they are better Christians than before embracing these heresies (as some call them).

Their numbers are few, yet they have kept up their meetings each Sabbath since we left them fifteen months ago. Bro. Corliss visited them in July last. Otherwise they have been alone amid bitter opposition. Yet with some candid minds, I am happy to state, prejudice is giving way, and they are inquiring. Eld. Nickerson (a Wesleyan) said to me, if he had the faculty to reform people of their tobacco only as we had, he would devote his whole life to it. God grant that he may feel the claims, and force, of the moral law and present truth, and thus be led to use his talents and influence in helping to carry forward the work of reform of which he feels so much need.

Those that have embraced the truth there are in union. May they continue in the love of the truth till Jesus comes.

D. W. MILK.

Chesaning, March 7, 1874.