CLYDE, OHIO by Dudley Marvin Canright; A. O. Burrill

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

CLYDE, OHIO.

By Dudley Marvin Canright; A. O. Burrill

WE have just closed our labors here. Have not accomplished very much, as the weather has been unfavorable. This is the second largest church in Ohio; but they are greatly scattered. Not more than half of them usually meet together at once. They have a very neat meeting-house which cost them about twenty-five hundred dollars. There was a debt of almost a thousand dollars upon this. Just before I came the brethren made arrangements to divide this debt among themselves so that it is now all provided for, and the church will stand clear. They have thus made a move in the right direction, and God will bless them for it. This is a very rich and lovely country. It seems to possess almost every advantage possible, and a good proportion of the brethren are well off and abundantly able to help largely in the cause. Quite a share of them are in middle life, just at the season when they should be strong in the work.

The Sabbath-school here needs some improvements. The tract society has done very well. They have also a good Vigilant Missionary Society. Thirty-nine copies of the SIGNS had formerly been taken here; they now take sixty-one copies.

The church is in harmony generally, though there are some matters of difficulty which we hope to see settled up shortly. We were sorry to find that some of the members have neither pledged nor paid S. B. for years; and some who have pledged have not paid anything for the past year. God cannot bless such slackness in his work. Nearly all present entered heartily into the tithing system for 1879.

The outside attendance was very small, yet there were a few deeply interested. Brn. St. John and Guilford will labor together in this district during the winter. We expect to dedicate the new church at Newark within a month. We wish to see a general rally of all our friends in that section at this time. We now go to Dunkirk, and other new churches, to aid them.

Our permanent P. O. address is Clyde, and any letters sent there will be forwarded.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

A. O. BURRILL.