POTTERVILLE AND ONEIDA by James White

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 24, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 56, No. 1

POTTERVILLE AND ONEIDA.

By James White

IN company with Profs. Brownsberger, Ramsey, and Kunz, we enjoyed a pleasant ride through the country to Potterville on Friday, June 18, and put up at the hospitable home of Bro. J. F. Carman and family. Sabbath morning we spoke in the house of worship in that place to a good congregation of attentive hearers. A few days’ notice of our coming would have filled the house.

It had been suggested that several desired baptism. These lived in the Oneida branch of the church, who hold their meeting at 3 P. M. In consequence of the heavy rains, which have kept farmers out of their fields, it was thought best not to hold services on the first day of the week, but give the brethren a chance to pursue their farming, which was very much behind the time; hence we decided to go to Oneida in the afternoon. Most of the morning congregation followed to Oneida in the afternoon, and the large schoolhouse was filled. We spoke for an hour on the subject of Christian baptism, then went two miles to the river, where seven young people were baptized. We have never led people into the water who moved forward with greater composure than these youths and children. First-day we returned to Battle Creek feeling refreshed in body, mind and spirits by the pleasant journey, good meetings, and congenial associates on that flying trip to Potterville and Oneida. J. W.