BLOOMINGTON, ILL by J. F. Ballenger

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1880

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.

By J. F. Ballenger

I CAME to this place Jan. 16, and held meetings over Sabbath and Sunday. On first-day we held a business meeting, to consider the subject of canvassing the city for our periodicals, and also the propriety of making an effort to build a church in this place. We gave some instruction with reference to canvassing, after which several brethren and sisters volunteered to engage in the work. Accordingly the city was districted, and each was assigned his section in which to solicit subscribers for the SIGNS, Good Health, and the Instructor. Since coming to this place we have visited the brethren at Grinley, Mackinaw, Tremont, and Leroy. With some of them we held public services; with others this was impracticable, the brethren being unable to meet together on account of bad roads. We visited them at their homes, however, and with one or two exceptions found them awake and ready for every good word and work. Before the holidays we held some meetings in the neighborhood of Mackinaw. Three took their stand to keep the Lord's Sabbath.

J. F. BALLENGER.