REPORT FROM BRO. BATES.
By Joseph Bates
DEAR BRO. BATES: The evening after the uproar in Onondaga, Apr. 28th, we commenced a series of meetings in this place. Our last meeting closed yesterday, First-day. Some have believed and admitted the truth, and some are benefitted, and we trust will walk in all the commandments of the Lord. Some continued to find fault, not so much with the coming of the Lord and end of all things, as they did about God's holy law, and weekly Sabbath, endeavoring to evade its claims on them by finding fault with those who profess to walk therein. After the rain storm abated we repaired to the water side, where ten, who had become dead to the law, were married to Christ by being buried with him by baptism into death, that they should walk in newness of life. One of the number is girding up his loins and lighting his lamp, and shaping his course to reach a station with the watchmen on the walls of Zion, to join them in sounding the alarm in God's holy mountain, to all the inhabitants of the land, and close up the final warning with the loud cry of the Third Angel's Message. From the water we repaired to Bro. Weed's where we were blessed of the Lord in celebrating the ordinances of the Lord's house. Sabbath meetings are now regularly established where none were held before. The church numbers here now about the same as they do in Jackson and Parma. I am now holding meetings about three miles from this, in the west part of the town of Blackman, where there seem to be some who have ears to hear. Tompkins, Mich., May 9th, 1859.