ILLINOIS by C. H. Bliss

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

ILLINOIS

By C. H. Bliss

We took down our tent at Mackinaw, Aug. 15, having been there over eight weeks. Slander, ridicule, misrepresentation, and private labor from house to house, have been engaged in by professors here, in order to weaken our work. They were advised by others where we had labored not to venture a discussion. They find a more effectual way of opposing us. We left about a dozen keeping the Sabbath, the most of whom signed the covenant. We obtained twenty subscribers for periodicals, established Sabbath meetings and Sabbath-school, sold some books, and received $15 in donations. We had many pressing calls for labor in school-houses near by.

I am now, Aug. 30, on the way to Mt. Vernon, Jefferson Co., Ill., where Tent No. 2 will be pitched in a few days. C. H. Bliss.