MICHIGAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

Mason, Aug. 29.—Commenced meetings here Aug. 14. The people have given us a good hearing from the first, the attendance ranging from 150 to 200, occasionally being much larger, as we have advertised special subjects. On Sundays our tent is filled. The interest has deepened, and conviction seems to be settling upon the people. We have canvassed the Sabbath question. There is here a Baptist minister who was a native of Prince Edwards Island near Nova Scotia. He was educated in Massachusetts, and has been a pastor of the Baptist church for nearly twenty years, until last spring, when he was obliged to give up on account of failing health. He and his family have attended our meetings from the first. He is thoroughly convinced, and with some others is taking his stand with us to keep the Sabbath. We intend to-morrow to hold our first Sabbath meeting with them. They seem to be intelligent, candid people. They are very kind to us. Here is a good missionary field. We need more help. Pray for us.

T. M. STEWARD. E. P. DANIELS.

Tent No. 1, South Haven.—We commenced meetings in this place Aug. 13, and have continued them each evening and Sunday since. Our congregations have averaged one hundred candid and interested hearers. The tent tracts have been taken freely, and sometimes we have sold books faster than two of us could hand them out and make change. The people are very kind to us, and abundantly supply all our wants. It is surprising to see how careful they are that we should want for nothing.

We are now in the midst of the Sabbath question, and a slight decrease in our congregation is perceptible; but still many listen attentively. People call upon us at our tents every day to talk with us about the truth; we also visit them at their homes. There were none of our people here when we came.

We now have hope that the seeds of truth sown will take root, and that God will give much increase. There will be meeting in the tent each Sabbath afternoon at 3 o’clock while we remain here, and we invite our brethren from Douglas, and all within reasonable distance, to attend.

E. R. JONES. WM. POTTER.