MEETINGS IN SOUTHERN MICHIGAN.
By Joseph Bates
We came from Ind. to Hillsdale Aug. 29, and commenced a series of meetings the 30th inst., which continued over Sept. 1, in the house of worship of the Seventh-day Adventists, with good interest. Besides the general gathering of the church, on first-day, a number of strangers listened, with interest, to our position, and the last warning message. We hope they were benefited. After the public meetings the church came together and manifested their unwavering confidence in our position as it is; and also sister White's communication issued in Review of Aug. 27, by a unanimous rising vote. We trust the ridiculous fashion which has been a screen to iniquity, therein referred to, will no more effect the church in H.; and we do hope it will become extinct throughout all the churches of the Seventh-day Adventists. I was much gratified in witnessing the manifest improvement in the church at H., since Brn. Loughborough and Waggoner were with them, when they organized themselves into a society to legally hold their house of worship, and manage their own temporal affairs. It will be evident to all the remnant, that the work of organizing was uncalled for until believers were gathered under the proclamation of the third angel's message, in numbers sufficient to constitute churches.125 In Burlington we also held meetings Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 7 and 8. On first-day and evening our numbers were considerably increased, with a manifest desire on the part of those who came in, for further understanding of our position. The brethren here much desire to be organized, and are expecting they shall be when Bro. Waggoner (whose home is among them) returns from the field of his western labors. Sept. 9 we came to Battle Creek. Brn. all well. The walls of the office building nearly ready for raising the roof. Structure and appearance are every way commanding, and thus far done in a workman-like manner, and none too large to accomplish the mighty work which now is, and will be, required to finish up the mystery of God. Batle Creek, Sept. 10, 1861.