Meeting House in Battle Creek.
By James White
We need a plain, comfortable house of worship very much, and shall doubtless have it completed this season. Our present place of worship is too small for our regular Sabbath congregation, which forbids extending invitations to our brethren in other towns and counties, to come and meet with us. The brethren in this place are generally poor, but ready to do their duty in the cause, at home or abroad. We are credibly informed that Bro. Loughborough has to meet a report in Wisconsin that Sabbath-keepers are building a meeting-house in Battle Creek, at the cost of $3000. This the disaffected ones use as evidence that we are becoming like the churches. Poor souls. Somebody made up the story, and they love to report it. Now the truth is, that the brethren have only talked of building a place of worship, and have had no higher hopes than (by the aid of free-will offerings of brethren in the State) to erect a plain house which might cost $500. Such a house we need, we must have it, and have no doubts but it will be completed this Fall.