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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1879

MICHIGAN

Vassar, Watrousville, and Elmwood.—I attended the quarterly meeting at Vassar, Oct. 11, 12.

From the 13th to the 19th, I held meetings in Watrousville. Nine were baptized, and six young men and women were added to the church. These meetings were a great source of encouragement to the church. I spent three days in Elmwood, and then returned and spent Sabbath and first-day in Watrousville.

After spending four days at Birch Run, I left the church much encouraged.

R. J. Lawrence.

Allegan, Nov. 4.—From Oct. 27 until Nov. 3 I held meetings at Jay, Saginaw Co. Our evening meetings, from first to last, were well attended, and the meeting on the Sabbath was quite large. During my stay in that place twenty-four signers to the teetotal pledge were obtained. These, added to the names previously obtained, will enable them to form a club of thirty-four members.

On Sunday $44.75 were subscribed by the brethren toward the payment of the debt of tract and missionary district No. 8. This amount, when added to the subscriptions obtained at Hazelton and St. Charles, make an aggregate of $227.75 as the amount raised by these three churches within the last six weeks. Their liberality is rewarded by the satisfaction which they now feel at the thought that their district, which one year ago was the most involved of any in the State, is now entirely out of debt, and will have a reserve fund, when their pledges are paid, of from fifty to one hundred dollars.

W. H. Littlejohn.

Cedar Lake, Sidney, Stanton and Sheridan.—Oct. 6 to 21 I was at Cedar Lake. The blessing of God attended the effort here. Eight were added to the church by baptism, and several others began to observe the Sabbath. Three promised to use no more tobacco. I obtained four subscribers for the REVIEW, and sold $2.50 worth of books.

My visit at Sidney, Oct. 22–28, was timely. In consequence of unreasonable opposition, a very favorable impression was made on the community. Fourteen, nearly all not of our faith, signed the temperance pledge.

Oct. 29–31 I was at Stanton and Sheridan. Good meetings were held in both of these places. The Sabbath-school work at Stanton is in a prosperous condition, and good has already resulted from it. I think it a good field of labor. Sheridan has suffered very much of late by removals.

My address, until further notice, will be Battle Creek, Mich., College.

Orlando Soule.