MEETINGS IN MICH by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1862

MEETINGS IN MICH.

By John Norton Loughborough

Since my last report I have held a two-days' meeting with the church in Hillsdale. On the second day of the meeting, first-day, Apr. 6, two were baptized. In the evening we had a refreshing season in attending to the ordinances of the Lord's house.

Sabbath, April 12, met with the few at Ransom. We had an excellent prayer and conference meeting on the Sabbath, and they expressed themselves as encouraged to press on. While in the place I gave two lectures and had a three-hours' public discussion one evening with Eld. Stout, Baptist minister, on the morality and perpetuity of the Sabbath institution.

As there was sickness with the only family I could stop with in Jefferson, it was decided to postpone lectures there for the present.

Monday, April 14, came on to Clinton, expecting to spend two or three days with the church there. But Brn. Seymour and Moore met us at the cars and informed us that the small pox was in their neighborhood, and it was not advisable for us to expose ourselves to it.

So we took the train again and came on to Jackson, where we had meeting with the church, Sabbath, April 19. Spoke twice on the work called in Rev. xi, I, measuring the people of God, which is not only done by the law of God, but by the manifestation of the Spirit of God in all its close teaching. There was one sister baptized between the discourses on Sabbath; and after the second discourse we celebrated the ordinances with the brethren. Arrived home in good health the afternoon of April 21.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Battle Creek, April 22, 1862.