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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 12, 1877

MICHIGAN

Wacousta.

I commenced a series of meetings at Wacousta, June 20, and to date, July 2, have given thirteen discourses. This is a very small country town, so I have to depend on the country around for a congregation. It is a very excellent farming community.

The interest is decidedly on the increase. I have now reached the Sabbath question, and some excitement prevails. Some come five and six miles to attend the meetings.

I find warm-hearted friends, who care for my wants and urgently invite me to their homes. They are mostly from the country, and are intelligent, fine-looking people. But thus far I have been alone; and as the weather has been such as to make it unsafe to leave the tent any length of time without care, I have been able to do but very little of that most important part of all our work—visiting, and praying with families. So far, I have done the work usually performed by two and sometimes by three, but still my strength and courage are good. I need assistance very much; and if there is a young man in the Michigan Conference who fears God and has this cause at heart and can endure hardness like a good soldier, I would be very glad to have him come and help me.

E. R. JONES.

Lakeview, Montcalm Co.

We have now, July 2, been here nearly a week, and are having, the citizens say, the largest gatherings ever known in this village. The best of attention is paid, and we are expecting to see good results from this tent-meeting. There is a church of our people in this vicinity, but they are very much scattered.

A. O. BURRELL.