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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 2

Van Wert and Dunkirk, Jan. 2.—Meetings at Van Wert closed Dec. 28. The church is now in better condition for working effectively in the tract society, Sabbath-school, and other branches of the cause, than ever in the past. The few additions made during these meetings will be a great help to the society here. Others are interested.

Jan. 1, I went to Dunkirk, and stayed two evenings. Obtained four subscribers for the REVIEW, the Signs, and the German paper, and ten copies of the Signs were taken for the missionary work. The outside interest is good. The brethren are live workers.

G. G. RUPERT.

Camden.—Have just closed a five-days’ meeting here. This is a new church, raised up this year by Eld. St. John and others. They have erected a meeting-house, in which we held our meetings, though it is not completed. This is the third meeting-house we have built in Ohio in 1879, in places where we had no society at the beginning of the year.

I judge there are about forty Sabbath-keepers at Camden. They have good meetings and Sabbath-school. Though the roads were very bad, we had a good attendance. Many not of our faith are interested, for whom we hope. We labored principally in the missionary and temperance work, as but little had been done in these branches. It will still require much patient labor to get them well at work judiciously distributing our reading matter, and obtaining subscribers to our periodicals. The only way this can be accomplished is by personal labor with each individual.

We spoke three times on the health and temperance work. The subject was well received, and about thirty signed the pledge. Tea, coffee, tobacco, and pork will be almost wholly laid aside here. Bro. Wm. Beebe, our State Secretary of the temperance society, was present and rendered valuable aid. He is doing just what every officer ought to do; viz., becoming thoroughly informed in the duties of his office, and working in it with enthusiasm.

We disposed of about three hundred Annuals, and obtained several subscribers for periodicals. A good delegation was present from Wakeman and Troy.

D. M. CANRIGHT.