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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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By James Sawyer

Crawford Co.—Since the Dunlap camp-meeting most of my time has been employed in Crawford county. At the quarterly meeting at Denison two united with the church, the T. and M. society pledged to clear their debt before the first of next January, and the Sabbath-school was re-organized. Steps were taken to awaken more interest in the Sabbath-school and in the T. and M. work.
About three weeks have been spent near Dow City. Here a Sabbath-school numbering seven has been organized. Others will unite with this school. A club of the weekly Instructor is taken, and both old and young meet on the Sabbath to recite the lessons found in it.
I have visited from house to house, and obtained over thirty subscribers for our papers. These include Scandinavians, Germans, and Americans. Some are found who acknowledge that we have the truth, and they are interested in circulating our publications. A Danish friend joins our T. and M. society, so that he can have tracts to distribute.
The impressions received by some who attended the Dunlap camp-meeting will long be felt. One man past sixty years of age has since that meeting left the use of tobacco. A sister about fifty-eight years of age who abandoned the use of tea at the camp-meeting, speaks of the benefits she has derived from abstinence. One brother past sixty-five, who had used tobacco more than forty years, resolved at the camp-meeting to use it no longer. He has kept his resolution, and rejoices in the step taken, declaring that his appetite for tobacco is entirely gone. Bless God for the truth.
Aug. 3. JAMES SAWYER.