INDIANA

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1878

Friendship, Ripley Co.

OUR meetings at this place are well attended, considering the muddy state of the roads and the small number of inhabitants in the village. Feb. 16 we held our second Sabbath meeting. A goodly number were out. Some observed the Sabbath for the first time. Have obtained one subscriber for the SIGNS, four for the REFORMER, and nine for the INSTRUCTOR.

Last first-day, Feb. 17, held three meetings at Dillsborough in Dearborn Co. At the first meeting there were sixteen present, at the second two hundred, and at the third about two hundred and fifty. They offer us the town hall, all furnished, and request us to deliver a course of lectures.

S. H. Lane. J. S. Shrock.

Labor Among the Churches.

I HAVE been laboring with the tract societies, and think the work has been timely and the Lord has blessed. T. and M. libraries have been established at Marion, West Liberty, LaFayette, and Thorntown.

Held about twenty meetings at Mechanicsburg, Boone Co.; but although there are three meeting-houses in the place, I was obliged to leave for want of a house. Many are interested, and desire us to hold a tent-meeting there as early as possible. When the churches were closed against us, a friend living four miles away, a member of the Christian church, invited us to hold meetings in his house. We accepted. As a result, this brother and his wife and three of their neighbors have joined the church at Thorntown, another man is keeping the Sabbath, and many more are hopefully convinced. Expect to resume meetings here the first of March.

I labored some with the church at Thorntown. This church has done valuable service in the T. and M. cause. The truth is gaining ground in this Conference.

Wm. Covert.