Response from Lapeer, Mich.
Bro. White: The following resolutions were adopted at the regular church meeting on the first first-day in August, 1862: Resolved, That we respond to Bro. White's suggestions under the head of "Systematic Labor," in Review No. 8. We can report that we are "organized," and that it is good to move out in the order of the Lord; and we propose that, if "some good preacher will make it his head-quarters here at Lapeer, so that when he returns to his family, now and then, we can have preaching," we will provide a parsonage for him and his family to live in, and we will try to do our duty in regard to their support. Resolved, That we ask for a quarterly conference to be established here, this being the most central point among five churches: the church at Thetford is about twenty-two miles north-west; the church at North Branch is about twenty miles north-east; south and south-east is the church at Oakland, twenty-five miles; and the church at Shelby is about thirty miles. The difference in the roads will more than overbalance the difference in the distance. We believe the interest of the cause and the general good of the churches call for early attention to this subject. We are living in a time when we need counsel, and an opportunity to counsel with each other. May the Lord guide us aright. By order of the church.
WM. S. HIGLEY, JR.