SHERIDAN, MICH by E. Van Deusen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 1, 1877

SHERIDAN, MICH.

By E. Van Deusen

CAME to this place Nov. 8. This is a village of about one hundred families, six miles south of Stanton, the county seat of Montcalm Co. A Methodist house of worship has been erected, but not completed so as to be in use. An old school-house, not in use by the school-district, is used as a meeting-house. This, Bro. A. D. Jones had secured for us by consultation with the district board. We occupied it five nights

each week. This protracted our stay, taking three weeks, to do two weeks’ work. We occupied the house until Jan. 1, when the Methodist minister very unceremoniously gave out an appointment to commence a protracted meeting on Tuesday evening following my Monday evening meeting. We visited him, and earnestly asked the use of the house one week longer. He said they intended to commence then, and should not yield unless obliged to do so. As they had repaired the house somewhat, and claimed the house on that ground, we pressed the matter no farther. We removed our meetings to the house of Bro. Jones.

When we came to the place, there were but five here keeping the Sabbath; now there are twenty-one grown persons, eighteen of whom have covenanted to keep the “commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” a Sabbath-school and Bible-class are organized, and S. B. is pledged to the amount of $70. After a stay of eleven weeks, we left this dear people for a time, at least, hoping to meet them again in the spring, then with proper help to perfect an organization. E. Van Deusen.