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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 8.

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MICHIGAN

By W. H. Littlejohn

From July 25-28, I was with the church at Leighton. Our meetings were encouraging. We found the brethren, much to our satisfaction, occupying the commodious hall in the town of Wayland, instead of the school-house in the country near by, where they have formerly held their meetings. On the Sabbath the church was well represented; and on Sunday we had a very fair congregation, made up largely of those not of our faith. Two united with the church by letter.
July 29, I attended a Sabbath-school picnic, held on the shore of Miner's Lake, about three miles north of Allegan. The day was a delightful one, and the location well adapted to the purpose for which it was resorted to. The attendance was larger than could have been expected, and was made up of delegations from the churches of Otsego, Monterey, Leighton, and Allegan.
The Sabbath-school of the first-named place had at their service a passenger coach belonging to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R. R., which was well filled with the officers, teachers, and scholars of their school. Several boats on the lake, and a number of swings in the grove, occupied the attention of the teachers and scholars until noon, when they separated in groups to partake of the refreshments which they had provided for the occasion. After dinner they were addressed by the writer; and the balance of the afternoon having been spent in friendly converse, recreation, etc., all returned home at the approach of night, feeling that the day had been a good one, and grateful that no serious accident had happened.
W. H. LITTLEJOHN.