Progress and Calamity in Durand
By R. W. Reed
Bro. White: I wish to say for the encouragement of the brethren scattered abroad, that the cause in Durand Wis., and vicinity is surely advancing. There have been two or three sound conversions from sin to the truth. Two have been baptized and one more is to be next Sabbath. One good sister, formerly a Baptist, has seen the light and joined the church. Three came over from Menomonee last Sabbath and joined the church. Our meetings are good. All the brethren and sisters work and the Lord blesses. As it respects my self, wife and daughter, a great calamity has befallen us. I have labored this summer to build us a comfortable house, had it well night completed; but alas! how uncertain are earthly hopes. Last Friday the fire took it all away and with it all our house-hold effects. Not an article of bedding or clothing, save what we had on our persons, is left us, and my wife came near perishing in the flames. She escaped by falling from a staging on to which she was driven by the fire. She was injured but not as severely as we feared. R. W. Reed.