REPORT OF MEETINGS by John Norton Loughborough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 9, 1860

REPORT OF MEETINGS.

By John Norton Loughborough

Since we left Battle Creek we have filled our appointments at Tompkins and Saline. Our conference at Tompkins was an interesting season, and we trust will be of profit to the church. Some thirty or forty assembled from Jackson, Parma, and other places in the vicinity. We had good freedom in talking the truth, and an excellent time at the close of the conference in attending to the ordinances of the Lord's house, which we felt indeed were designed to teach us to be humble, and at the same time point us back to Calvary.

Monday evening, Jan. 16th, we spoke to a few who assembled at Bro. Palmer's house, in Jackson.

Our meetings at Saline were of greater interest than we had expected. We spoke three times in the village of Saline where the Mich. tent was pitched five years ago. We were glad to find a few who still have an ear for the truth. We also had three meetings in the school-house near Bro. Edmund's. The neighbors seemed more interested than ever before, and we trust some will step out upon the truth as the result of these meetings. While at Saline we recommended to the church the plan of systematic benevolence, which was heartily adopted without a dissenting voice.

Yours hoping for victory.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Southfield, Mich., Jan. 24th, 1860.