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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 11, 1877

SECOND SESSION

By J. S. Chapman

MICH. T. AND M. SOCIETY, DIST. NO. 13.

At the State quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society held at Alaiedon, Dec. 24, the question of the division of Dist. No. 10 was left to be decided at the meeting to be held at Armada, Dec. 31, as the churches comprising that district would be there represented. The meeting was held as appointed, with D. H. Lamson as chairman and Sr. J. S. Chapman, secretary. The churches of Rochester, Lapeer, Memphis, Dryden, and Smith’s Creek, were represented.

Opening remarks were made by Eld. S. N. Haskell, when the question of division was left to a committee to be appointed by the chair, with power also to nominate officers for the new district, should it be created. H. S. Gurney, of Memphis, Wm. Potter, of Lapeer, C. O. Rathbun, of Rochester, and Sylvester Curtis, of Dryden, were appointed as that committee. Quite extended remarks were made concerning the meeting at Alaiedon, by Eld. Haskell, the work accomplished at that meeting and proposed for the future; after which the meeting adjourned to call of the chair.

SECOND SESSION.

The committee chosen reported in favor of the division of Dist. No. 10 as follows: Armada, Memphis, Dryden, Almont, Greenwood, and Smith’s Creek, to form the new district, to be called Dist. No. 13, leaving Rochester, Lapeer, Flint, Holly, and Richfield, in No. 10; also that Wm. C. Hebner be the director of the new district, and J. S. Chapman, secretary, both of Armada.

The report of the committee was accepted and adopted, and the division thus completed.

A very deep feeling with respect to missionary labor was apparent at this meeting, and it is hoped that the present year will see very much accomplished by the workers in this district. May God bless Dist. No 13. J. S. CHAPMAN, Sec.