The Cause Prosperous in Michigan
Bro. M. G. Kellogg writes from Lapeer, Mich., Feb. 15th, 1853:—"The cause of truth is prospering in Michigan. Jan. 6th I met Bro. Case at Grand Rapids, where he gave ten lectures to a congregation of from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty persons, who had never heard a lecture on the second coming of Christ. A few there embraced the present truth. "From this place we went to Bedford, arrived there Jan. 1st. On First-day, Bro. Case buried seventeen by baptism. In the evening we came together and had a good meeting. We felt that we were sitting together in a heavenly place in Christ Jesus. The brethren and sisters in Bedford, are persuaded that neither death, life, angels, principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth nor any other creature, shall be able to separate them from the love of God, and the keeping of his commandments, and the faith of Jesus. This band, numbering eleven, were once turned from the truth; but thank the Lord, they were his, and they would not stay turned away. And now instead of eleven, they number twenty. "From Bedford we went to Jackson. Spent one Sabbath there. Left there Feb. 2d, to attend the Conference at Tyrone. The band here numbers over twenty. God was with us in very deed. Such a scene I never before witnessed. It was a time of breaking down of hearts before the Lord. We were all fed from our Master's table. "God is at work in the West. The message is beginning to rise, and may God grant that the messengers may rise with it; rise in the Spirit and power of Israel's God. The interest is increasing, and little bands are springing up here and there all around us. And we hear the cry, 'Come over and help us.' O, that God would raise up laborers after his own heart, that are dead to the world and alive to Christ, having a good understanding of his truth, and fill them with his Spirit, that they may be enabled to handle his Word discreetly, that they may carry this last message of mercy to the children of men."