p. 134 | Labors at Ottawa Lake, Deerfield, and Dundee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 25, 1878

Labors at Ottawa Lake, Deerfield, and Dundee

By J. S. Preston; C. A. Preston

Dundee, April 19.

We have closed our labors at Ottawa Lake. The interest was good from the first, our congregations averaging about seventy-five notwithstanding it was almost impossible to get around. Several have commenced to keep the Sabbath, and more than three quarters of the community acknowledge that we have the truth. Many who are not keeping the Sabbath are very firm in defending it. One German family who can read and converse but little in English, have commenced keeping the Sabbath as the result of reading German tracts. Our works have been pretty generally read in this community. Here and at Deerfield we have distributed 28,000 pages of reading matter, have sold books to the amount of $6.60, have obtained 31 subscribers for our different periodicals, and are sending the SIGNS to six, on trial.

Since the first of February, Sabbath meetings have been kept up at both Deerfield and Ottawa Lake, and one of us meets with the friends at each place each alternate Sabbath and Sunday. At Deerfield they have organized a Sabbath-school, and the interest is steadily increasing.

We commenced labor at Dundee last evening. There are a few warm-hearted friends of the truth here as the result of the missionary labors of sister Delia Fitch; and they have secured for our meetings, free of charge, the Temperance Hall, which is a very convenient place. They have also had printed two hundred bills advertising our lectures, besides having the meetings noticed in the village paper. We have a few earnest workers here, and we expect, by the blessing of God, to see a good work done.

J. S. PRESTON. C. A. PRESTON.