GLEANINGS FROM THE EASTERN FIELD.
ALABAMA, Bladen Springs.—Eld. C. O. Taylor reports a two-days' meeting with good attendance and good interest. Several expressed themselves favorable to the truth, and some acknowledged that they felt condemned for working on the previous Sabbath. Good results are looked for. MINNESOTA, Stoe Prairie, Todd Co.—Bro. John I. Collins, March 14, writes: Commenced meetings here about three weeks ago. The Lord has blessed the effort. The attendance has not been large, but the hearers are very regular and attentive. The school-teacher, an influential young man, and his wife, and a few others, have begun to keep the Sabbath. Nearly all who have attended the meetings are convinced of the truth, and I think others will obey when they are fully tested. Jordan, Scott Co.—Bro. J. W. Moore says: I have found, scattered through this part of the country, within a radius of twelve miles from here, seventeen Sabbath-keepers; and all of them except two have embraced the truth by reading, and previous to my coming had never heard a sermon on present truth. All but two of the families supposed that they were the only Sabbath-keepers in this section of country. I am making an effort to get our publications introduced into these families. MICHIGAN, Newark, Gratiot Co.—Bro. L. A. Kellogg reports that he has closed a series of meetings there, and adds: The result was good, as those who had accepted the truth plainly saw the weakness of their former positions. I then spent a few days in visiting and encouraging the friends, and listening to opposition discourses. Seven have taken a firm stand for the whole truth, and others are deeply interested. IOWA, Traer, Tama Co.—Bro. J. D. Pegg says of the meetings there: Ten or fifteen are now keeping the Sabbath as the result of our labors here. We hope to organize a class and a Sabbath-school. Bro. C. A. Washburn, writing from Decatur county, gives the following important testimony: I have noticed in this church, as in others, that those who take our papers, and read them, are growing stronger in the truth; while those who do not, are growing weaker, and are dropping off by the way.