MICHIGAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1878

Labor Among the Churches.

Immediately after the dedication of the church at Lakeview, we rode across the country a distance of twenty-two miles to Greenville in Montcalm county, where we remained and labored until the 25th of May.

On the Sabbath, the members of the churches at Orleans and Bushnell were very fully represented in our meeting, having come a distance respectively of ten and eleven miles. The interest thus manifested on their part was very encouraging. They took part also in our social meeting with a promptitude which was really gratifying, and afforded us the privilege of listening to sixty-one testimonies in less than an hour.

After returning home from Greenville, we enjoyed two or three days of rest, and were unexpectedly summoned by telegram to Wright, Ottawa county, for the purpose of preaching the funeral discourse of Solomon D. Covey, whose life was suddenly terminated by a distressing providence, a detailed account of which is given in the mortuary column.

Having remained in Wright in order to preach on the Sabbath and Sunday following the funeral, we returned again to Allegan, which place we reached on the evening of the 3d of June.

W. H. LITTLEJOHN.

Portland, June 6.

We pitched our tent at Portland, Ionia county, June 4, and held our first meeting on the evening of the 5th. About one hundred were present. This is a quiet, pleasant town of about twelve hundred inhabitants. Bro. Geo. H. Randall, director of Dist. No. 10, is with me. We expect Bro. Lamson soon.

There will be meeting at the tent each Sabbath while we are here at 10:30 A. M. We invite our brethren in the surrounding country to meet with us.

H. M. KENYON.