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

Bentonsport, Van Buren Co., May 8.

WE began meetings here April 26. Have given eleven discourses to date. We shall reach the Sabbath question this week. The people are ready to hear, and questions are asked freely. Several reliable persons in this vicinity are observing the Sabbath, who have not heard a sermon on the subject. I expect Bro. Hollenbeck this week to aid in the work. We use the Universalist church, which has not been occupied for years.

We are much encouraged with the prospect here, and hope for some fruit. L. McCoy.

Sheldahl, May 7.

WE closed our meetings here last evening. Spoke seventeen times. Fifteen have acknowledged the true Sabbath, one has commenced to keep it, and others promise to do so. Sixteen have subscribed for the REVIEW, one for the REFORMER, and one for the Swedish paper. Besides this, we have sold 4,496 pages of our tracts, and several bound books. One man who only heard us four evenings, as he had to leave then, gave us $2.50, and said he was more than paid for it.

There are good openings for winter labor in the school-house in this vicinity. Calls come in from all directions. Pray for the cause in this part of the vineyard. Wm. Everhart. Scott Kilgore.