HALL’S CORNERS, MICH by E. R. Jones

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 22, 1877

HALL’S CORNERS, MICH.

By E. R. Jones

HAVE now given ten discourses in the school-house at this place. The house, which is a large one, I occupy five nights each week, it being used the other two for different purposes. Had a good hearing for the first two evenings, after which the interest became intense; and, although the nights were dark and roads very muddy, the house has been filled to overflowing at nearly every meeting. Some evenings loads have gone away unable to get standing room. Some elderly people walk about three miles through the mud and dark to “hear it all.”

Never before have I had so good a hearing in a school-house. The excitement has reached for miles around. I have just reached the messages, and many appear thoughtful and solemn. A few are very much stirred up, and already I have been challenged for a discussion. I utterly refused to enter into controversy till after I had finished my series of meetings. It seems to me to be a bad plan to stop a course of lectures when the people have an ear to hear, to enter into a debate; for it is almost sure to dry up the interest afterward.

The signs indicate lively times before I get through. I hope for much good to be accomplished. My trust is in the Lord, who has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things to confound the things that are mighty. E. R. JONES.

Feb. 14, 1877.