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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 13, 1877

MICHIGAN

Port Huron.

We have moved our tent to the northern part of the city, and have pitched it in a beautiful location, and one which is quite central. The majority of those interested at the former places have followed us here, and we are also getting a good many new hearers. A week ago Sunday evening our congregation numbered nearly five hundred, and this was our one hundred and first service in this city. The most intense interest was manifest in this the closing meeting on that ground which had been occupied for seven weeks and two days.

Our audience last evening, Sept. 2, was again very large, composed of old friends and new ones, though overcoats and wraps, and gloves even, were almost a necessity. We have now baptized fourteen, and our class list has increased to fifty members, of whom all but three are adults. Eight of these are from the Episcopal church, and there are some from all the other churches in the town, with a goodly number from the world. The attendance at our Sabbath meetings varies from sixty to one hundred. Last Sabbath I counted twenty children under thirteen years of age in one class in

our Sabbath-school.

We have had no organ in our tent, and no special inducements to call the people together, and our singing has always been of a primitive character.

We have baptism again next Sabbath. A special effort is now being made to get subscribers for our periodicals, and we hope for a large list. We have taken steps to secure a place of worship after the tent is taken down, and shall succeed. We cannot hope to continue tent-meetings more than two weeks longer. My health has compelled a postponement of meetings for a few days. We hope still for many additions to our number. D. H. Lamson.

Lakeview and Howard City.

We closed our tent-meetings at Lakeview last Sabbath. During our nine weeks' stay there, an uncommon interest has prevailed, and many who never before have manifested any interest in religion have given their hearts to Christ.

We leave about fifty adults who have promised to live out the truths of the third angel's message, and several more whom we expect will yet yield to the truth. On Sabbath, at the conclusion of the sermon, seven more came into the church, six of whom were baptized, making in all twenty-two who have joined. The remainder joined the class. Next Sabbath I shall meet with them again, when others will receive baptism. Weekly prayer-meetings have been appointed in three places. They will hold their Sabbath services in the school-house until the church building is completed, which we expect will be early in the spring. God has greatly blessed our labors at Lakeview, and to him be all the glory. There are now more than one hundred, including children and those who kept the Sabbath before we came, who can meet on the Sabbath.

We held our first meeting at Howard City with a congregation of one hundred and twenty-five. There is a fair prospect of winning some to the truth. This is a village of seven or eight hundred inhabitants. It has two railroads. We have come here because this is the only town near our last work, to bind that off, so that it would not ravel out. A. O. Burrill.

Birch Run.

I left home May 7, and held meetings two weeks in a vacant store three-fourths of a mile west of Birch Run station; then moved to the Lincoln school-house two weeks, and held meetings in the Dobson school-house, holding meetings there and at the Lincoln school-house alternately. Had good attendance and a good interest. There was no open opposition, but quite a strong under-current against us. I spoke, in all, one hundred and ten times. As the result, eighteen gave their names to sustain Sabbath meetings and Bible-class, and several others are keeping the Sabbath. Many more are convinced, but worldly considerations prevent obedience. H. J. Lawrence.