Meetings in Shiawassee Co., Mich.
By M. E. Cornell
BRO. SMITH: Our meetings in Owasso resulted very encouragingly. There are established meetings now, and some eighteen or twenty fully decided in the truth. The last social meetings were cheering. The three or four Sabbath-keepers who have been standing alone without meetings so long a time, are greatly rejoiced at seeing so many of their friends and neighbors heartily embrace the present truth. The two Bro. Guilfords, nephews of Wm. Miller, before mentioned, now rejoice in the Third Angel's Message, and testify that the same spirit is in this message that was in the first. Though they have been surrounded by darkness, and did not understand why there should be such disappointment as they experienced in 1844, yet they have always believed that God was in that movement; but all is now clear, and the Third Message has taken away all the "bitterness" which followed the eating of the little book. We hope all these young converts will shut their eyes from seeing evil, and their ears from hearing vanity, and watch against the spirit of the world. To watch and pray, remembering that for every idle word an account must be given, is the only way for any to escape the corruptions in the world, and be saved at last.