MICHIGAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1878

QUINCY.—We held meetings with the Quincy church, Oct. 29 to Nov. 6. Our labors there were to relieve the church from some embarrassments under which they had labored for several years. We hope that our efforts resulted favorably for the cause. It is due to the brethren in that place to say that their difficulties are to a large extent attributable to unfavorable surroundings and the unfaithfulness of a few, rather than to an utter lack of spirituality on the part of the majority. There are in that church individuals who evidently have had a deep experience in the things of God, and who have mourned very deeply over a condition of things for which they were not responsible and which they could not remedy. We confidently hope there is a better future before them.

EDENVILLE.—This place is situated in Midland county, and there was formerly located therein a church of Seventh-day Adventists, which was disbanded about four years ago. When we visited them recently, they had no organization and held no meetings. After laboring there between two and three weeks, we left a company numbering twenty-three in all, who had covenanted together to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and had selected suitable persons to conduct their regular services on each Sabbath day. We also organized a Sabbath-school comprising twenty-eight members, and obtained eleven subscribers for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and ten for the weekly INSTRUCTOR. During our meetings, eight or nine persons commenced to keep the Sabbath and identified themselves with our people. Before we left, the brethren had arranged for the building of a meeting-house of moderate dimensions, which will answer their present necessities. Our meetings were well attended from first to last. Eld. E. R. Jones arrived Dec. 1, and kindly consented to continue the meetings for one week. We left thereupon for Bushnell, Montcalm county.

It is but due to Mary Ann Carty, who is a resident of Edenville, to say that she would have been baptized at the Lansing camp-meeting held one year ago, had it not been that her name was at first mistaken for that of Carter, by the one to whom the case was referred.

W. H. LITTLEJOHN.

Hickory Corners, Dec. 10.

Since camp-meeting I have continued labor in the vicinity of Hickory Corners, and some have embraced the truth. We have regular Sabbath meetings, with an attendance of about thirty-five. Our meetings are very interesting, also our Sabbath-school, which numbers about thirty-five pupils. I am trying to gather others in. To the Lord be all the praise for the good work here.

T. M. STEWARD.

Dist. No. 4.

We closed our meetings at Otsego, Dec. 10. One took a decided stand for the truth, and seven united with the church. Fifteen copies of the SIGNS were taken on the installment plan. All voted a sum equal to one-third their S. B. for missionary work, and cheerfully agreed to pay a tithe of their increase into the treasury of the Lord. Harmony prevails here.

These meetings have been a source of encouragement to us, and we hope all the churches in this district will follow the example of the church at Otsego.

H. M. KENYON.

Dec. 11. M. S. BURNHAM.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 13.

I have commenced meetings among the Scandinavians in Grand Rapids. Nine adults were present at my first meeting and between twenty and thirty at my third. Some are interested. I have obtained one subscriber for the HAROLD and two for the TIDENDE, each with premiums. Have also sold pamphlets and tracts to the amount of one dollar, and received an order for a large Danish Bible.

G. A. CARLSTEDT.