p. 261 | GLEANINGS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 9, 1881

GLEANINGS.

OHIO, Reedsville.—May 23, Eld. E. H. Gates says: —"I have just finished a one-week's meeting here. Found eight or nine keeping the Sabbath. Most of them received the truth by reading publications sent by a good sister in Iowa,—another evidence of the value of the tract societies. Prejudice has been bitter here, but our meetings have had the effect of wearing away some of it. On Sunday we organized a church of seven members. One was baptized, and others will be when I come again."

MICHIGAN, St. Louis.—Eld. A. O. Burrill reports from this place as follows, May 23: "I spent last Sabbath here. A church of fifteen members was organized, and there are others to unite with them soon. Their new meeting-house is so nearly completed that we held our services in it. It will be ready for dedication in a few weeks."

Lakeview.—Eld. D. M. Canright thus speaks of his recent visit to this place: "May 12, myself and wife came to this place, where we have labored two weeks. It is a village of about one thousand inhabitants. There are about forty Sabbath-keepers here, and they have a good house of worship; but the brethren mostly live out from three to six miles in all directions, so that it was difficult to get them together evenings. Both Sabbaths we had excellent meetings, nearly every one speaking with deep feeling."