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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1879

OHIO

Red Brush, Richland Co., Aug. 9.—This summer, I have been holding meetings here once in two weeks, and superintending a Sunday school. We use the Instructor and Lesson Sheets. Our school numbers from thirty to fifty. On the Sabbath, from seventeen to twenty-five attend meeting. Twelve are keeping the Sabbath. We are going to camp-meeting with a tent from this place. We ask an interest in your prayers. W. A. Richardson.

Appleton, Aug. 11.—We are still having a good hearing. Can report some progress. Some half a dozen have decided to obey. The people are very kind, inviting us to their homes. Yesterday Eld. Hanger (Christian) spoke against us, on consciousness in death. Bro. Burrill reviewed him before a large audience in the evening. He puts in a rejoinder in the tent, Wednesday evening, and we reply Thursday evening. We have offered him the tent in which to speak. Our address will be Johnstown, Licking Co., where we next pitch our tent. N. J. Bowers.

Camden.—We have now closed our meetings in this place. The interest was not equal to that manifested during our first effort in Wakeman, but we think some good has been accomplished. A few have commenced to obey the truth. We baptized three last Wednesday; one of these was a very aged sister, who rejoiced in God as she came out of the water. The Wakeman church now numbers forty-one. Perhaps fifteen or twenty adults are keeping the Sabbath within a radius of five miles of the spot where we first pitched our tent, who have not yet come into the church.

Thirty-two have promised to pay tithes. A T. and M. society has been started. This closes our work before camp-meeting. Our expenses about equal our receipts. We now ship the tent to the camp-ground. We have labored together in love and union. H. A. St. John.

Aug. 12. A. M. Mann.

Round Head, Aug. 10.—Closed our meetings here to-day, having been here about four weeks. On Sundays our congregations have averaged about five hundred. I spoke three times each Sunday. Some came ten miles to attend these meetings. Sold about $15 worth of books. Many from other parts of the country are much interested. Only one has taken a firm stand for the truth, making seven in all; yet I think there will be more Sabbath-keepers as the result of these meetings. They hold regular meetings and Sabbath-school, taking five copies of the Instructor. I shall long remember them for their kindness to us.

The last Sunday we were at Round Head a Baptist minister came to oppose us, and took so ungentlemanly and unworthy a course, that many of his brethren say they will never go again to hear him preach. I intend to visit the Sabbath-keepers at Round Head again soon. We gained many friends in the community. I now move the tent seven miles distant, where there are a few Sabbath-keepers, and commence meetings the 29th. G. G. Rupert.