MEETINGS IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN.
By Joseph Bates
DEAR BRO. WHITE: After closing our meetings in and around Greenville (referred to in Review of July 23) we spent a few days in Orange, Ionia Co., some thirty-five miles south of Greenville. Three young sisters who have embraced the whole truth since our meeting in Orange last May, two of them daughters of Bro. and sister Howe, nineteen and seventeen years of age, were buried with Christ by baptism, after which the church celebrated the solemn ordinance of the Lord's supper. How gratifying and encouraging it is to those who are laboring for the salvation of their fellow-men to see the blooming youth turn away from the vain allurements of this wicked and perverse generation, and lean on the arm of the blessed Saviour, and plead with God for eternal life. July 22, took the cars for Berlin and Wright. Here, I think, I spent a week very profitably with the church holding meetings in their neighborhood. They had been getting into some trial in relation to church order, which is now better understood, and happily settled. Meetings on the Sabbath were interesting and free, with the blessing of the Lord. On first-day morning we rode seven miles for a suitable place for baptizing. Notwithstanding the rain-storm, quite a number were at the waterside where three were baptized. This makes twenty-four that we have baptized since our meeting commenced at Greenville. My prayer is, Lord, bless and strengthen thy struggling, waiting people, and give them to feel the power of the last solemn message. I returned to Monterey July 30, desiring to spend the day set apart for humiliation, fasting and prayer, with the tried ones to be gathered here on the morrow. O Lord, grant nourishment and strength to thy people now, and give additional aid to the four angels to restrain the wrathful spirit of war and bloodshed, until the 144000 saints shall be sealed.