A Year's Work in Michigan.
As it may be interesting to the friends of truth to know what has been done within the bounds of the Michigan Conference, the past year, we have compiled the following statements from the reports of the churches and ministers. By the ministers that have been left in the State, there have been held during the year, nine hundred and fifty-eight meetings. There has been a net increase of membership in the churches, of one hundred and twenty-eight members. Forty churches represented themselves at our late Conference, either by delegate or letter, presenting an aggregate membership of one thousand and eighty. Two churches were not represented either by letter or delegate, namely, Bowne, and Parkville. Whole number of churches now belonging to the Conference, forty-two. Others will soon be organized in East Thetford, Hadley, and Cato, Montcalm Co. Total amount of s. B. fund within the Conference, $ 3797,04. Amount pledged for Conference purposes, that is, for Tent operations and the support of ministers, $ 1907,00. Arrangements for the coming season are not entirely complete. Brn. I. D. Van Horn and R. J. Lawrence will labor with the Michigan Tent. Bro. D. M. Canright goes as Tent-master, and to speak according to the judgment of those with whom he labors. We hope to secure for many of the churches, a visit from Bro. and Sr. White the coming season. Brn. P. Strong Jr., of Pine Grove Mills, R. Burtenshaw of Memphis, D. M. Canright of Coldwater, and H. L. Doty of Salem Center, Ind., receive from the Conference a license to improve upon their gift in publicly preaching the message the coming year. Uriah Smith,
Jno. Byington,
R. J. Lawrence,
Michigan Conference Committee.