CONFERENCE AT ORION, MICH by John Norton Loughborough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 16, 1860

CONFERENCE AT ORION, MICH.

By John Norton Loughborough

OUR conference in this place, which has just closed, has been a season of interest, and we trust of profit to the brethren and sisters assembled. We hope it will also be saving in its influence on some of the many who listened with candor to the discourses given during the conference.

Quite a number of the brethren and sisters assembled from Lapeer, Shelby, and other places in the vicinity. Here we met with two brethren who had been reading the Review for a few months past, and had almost made up their minds to obey the truth. We hope they will step out, in the strength of the Lord, on the truths they have become interested in. We were glad to see at the conference Bro. Sanborn, of North Branch, a Baptist preacher who has lately taken a stand on the Lord's commandments.

Some sixty brethren and sisters assembled, and they, like the people of old who built the walls of Jerusalem, seemed to "have a mind to work." Our social meeting on the Sabbath was good. We had good liberty in preaching the word. Most of our meetings were held in Enterprise Hall, where from three to four hundred citizens sat on seats as rude as our tent seats and listened with attention to the truth. We expect some will take a stand on the truth as the result of this meeting.

Action was taken at this conference in relation to sustaining the Mich. tent the coming season. The conference voted that the churches in Shelby, Orion, Lapeer, North Branch, and East Thetford, would raise $150 to be used in sustaining the tent in Northern Michigan the coming season. These churches also invite the brethren in their vicinities to join with them in this enterprise. Vigorous efforts are being made by the committee appointed to raise this means. This action, it was desired, should be considered by the General Conference.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Owasso, Mich., Feb. 1st, 1860.