MICHIGAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1878

Labor among the Churches.

FROM March 8 to 11 we labored with the church at Leighton, in Allegan county. By our visit to that place we are encouraged to believe that the church located there are steadily moving in the right direction. Their numbers are few, but with consecration and thorough devotion to the cause of Christ, we believe that they might be speedily increased. They have resumed the payment of systematic benevolence, and we hope soon to see them engage heartily in the tract and missionary work.

On the 16th, 23d, and 30th of March, respectively, meetings were held with the church in Allegan. The brethren in this place are of good courage in the Lord, and are beginning to see the fruits of their labors in the missionary field. We trust that ere long they may be encouraged still more by an ingathering of souls. Two have recently united with the church on profession of faith, who had formerly known what it was to serve Christ, but who under a pressure of temptation and trials had given up the truth.

April 5, we went to Potterville, Eaton county, for the purpose of being present at the quarterly meeting. Our meeting was a pleasant one, and we think the results were of an encouraging nature. Several brethren and sisters from Dimondale were present on Sabbath and Sunday.

Sabbath and Sunday, April 13, 14, we met with the brethren in Monterey, at which place the quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 4 was held. The attendance was good and the spirit of the meeting profitable. Brethren were present from Douglas, distant twenty-five miles, and were feeling very much encouraged because of recent additions to their numbers. Eld. H. M. Kenyon was in attendance, and preached several times during the meetings. One young man started in the service of the Lord, and one sister identified herself fully with the church by going forward in the ordinance of baptism.

W. H. LITTLEJOHN. M. S. BURNHAM.

Cushman's Mill, Oceana Co.

I HAVE spoken here five times, to good congregations. Some came five and six miles. The truth had never been presented here, and all seem more or less interested. One man attended the meeting last night who had not attended any religious meetings for ten years. He seemed very much interested. I have called on him to-day and furnished him with some Sabbath tracts. Several have acknowledged the Sabbath, and others are investigating, but none have commenced to keep it yet, though I have good reason to believe that some will.

I have also spoken in a school-house a few miles south of this place. Two or three there are under conviction in regard to the Sabbath. I have sold several tracts and books, and obtained one subscriber for the INSTRUCTOR.

We had an excellent meeting at Twin Lakes last Sabbath. An old gentleman who used to be a class-leader among the Methodists has been with us for a few Sabbaths, and has taken part with us. He says he can feel the Spirit of the Lord in his heart just as he used to do when he was converted over twenty years ago. He is becoming convinced of the Sabbath. He is an Englishman by birth, and is very anxious that the truth should be preached in England. Others here are about ready to keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath-school is prospering finely. They are getting up a club for the INSTRUCTOR, and they are waiting for the Sabbath-school hymn book to be ready. They would like to have the INSTRUCTOR weekly.

I am now in Whitehall, on my way to Manistee to meet Bro. O. A. Olsen.

G. A. CARLSTEDT.