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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 19.

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MICHIGAN

By Augusta Lawrence; M. E. Rayburn

Report of Rochester Missionary Society.

The Vigilant Missionary Society of Rochester was organized Jan. 8, 1877, with twelve members, who have met regularly every week. Our interest in the work is steadily increasing. We are glad that there is a way in which we can be of some use in the great harvest field. We receive twenty-five copies of the SIGNS weekly, and could make use of many more. We have sent by mail a large number of papers and tracts, and have received some very interesting letters. The following are extracts from some of them:—
“TIFFIN, O., Mar. 15, 1877.
“Your favor of the 7th inst. is received. I have also received the various papers and tracts which you have so kindly sent me from time to time, and have been very much interested in reading the same.”
“RURAL RETREAT, Mar. 31, 1877.
“I received several days ago a paper styled THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, published March 1st, and sent, I suppose, by yourself, which I have read and reread with much pleasure, and I hope not without some profit. Your kindness in sending me the paper is very grateful to me. I had no knowledge of the existence of such a publication. I have just received by this mail a second copy of the same paper, also a tract entitled, ‘The Sufferings of Christ,’ both of which I shall read with great interest. I fully appreciate your kindness in proposing to send me such publications. I shall always read them carefully, and witha grateful recollection of your benevolence to myself.”
Another writes as follows:—
“I have received the papers and tracts that you sent, and am very thankful for them; but don’t want you to pay for them for me. I will pay for them.”
Another says:—
“Have received your papers, and have read them carefully, and have been benefited by the perusal of them. All my neighbors read them. The doctrine is new to us. Am very sorry I am not able at the present time to subscribe for them.”
AUGUSTA LAWRENCE, Pres.
M. E. RAYBURN, Sec.