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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 24.

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OHIO

Dunkirk.

We have just closed our meetings at Dunkirk, after remaining here two weeks, and holding meetings every evening and on Sabbath and Sunday. The attendance has been excellent. Seventeen were keeping the Sabbath when we came. Eight more have embraced the truth, making twenty-five. We have a good Sabbath-school of about forty members. Quite a quantity of books have been sold, and a good list of subscribers obtained for the REVIEW. As many as twelve or fifteen of the business men of the city are deeply interested in our meetings, and believe the truth. They are our warm friends; they attend all our meetings, and we hope that they will have strength to keep the Sabbath.
Bro. Rupert remains to follow up the interest, and will have a regular appointment here every four weeks during the winter. These new churches have been left too soon in Ohio, and as a consequence they have dwindled out, and those who have remained are weak and only partially in the truth. This should not be so. We shall therefore endeavor to carry out this work, and we hope thus to have a strong, faithful church in Dunkirk.
Bro. Burrill has done good service in the work thus far. My health is good, and my courage in the Lord is excellent.
Mrs. Canright remains at Battle Creek. Her strength is gradually failing, but she enjoys peace of mind and the blessing of God. In a recent letter she says: “My hopes that returning health will ever be mine to enjoy have faded away in the distance. I really do not gain any, but, on the contrary, I realize more and more that I am failing. This I have realized particularly during the past two weeks. But all this does not frighten me, nor bring gloom upon my mind. The Lord blesses me with peace of mind which is not often disturbed by doubts or temptations. Then, too, I truly am grateful for the temporal blessings I enjoy. The only thing lacking is your presence, and this lack I can only consent to because I know the need there is of your labors. If I can never be with you in your work again, I do not want to feel that I have hindered you, however much the natural feelings have to be sacrificed.”
She would highly appreciate letters from her friends, though she cannot answer them. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Dec. 6.

Belmore, Putnam Co., Dec. 2.

I have been holding meetings at Belmore five weeks. The interest has been good from the first. The audiences have ranged from fifty to four hundred. A few have commenced to keep the Sabbath, and I think others will do so soon.
A. A. BIGELOW.