Earlier text: THE OLD TESTAMENT ON ENDLESS TORMENTFrom a letter from Bro. Wm. Ings, dated Ravenswood, Southampton, Eng., Feb. 21, and addressed to the V. M. society at Battle Creek, we take the following extracts:— While some colporters complain that they are ejected from the ships, I meet with more favor. I have now visited 339 ships, and have only been ordered off once. I can see the hand of the Lord, not only in the permission accorded me to board boats, but also in giving the seamen a desire to render assistance in sowing the seed of truth. I visited a Holland boat bound for the East Indies, which had quite a number of German and Dutch soldiers on board. One of them, on learning my business, volunteered to circulate papers and tracts, which I gave him. He sold them, and returned me the money. He seemed to be just as earnest in the work as I would be. A steward on a German boat bound for New York, went with me among the hundreds of passengers on board, and urged them to purchase our publications. The stewards on the Oriental boats manifest the greatest pleasure in circulating our publications in the East Indies. Neither do the stewards on the Brazil, West India, and Cape of Good Hope boats manifest less zeal. A captain of a sailing ship requested publications to hand out at the different ports that his ship enters. This offer was made after the Sabbath question had been explained, he himself purchasing some of our larger works. These are only a few of the encouraging incidents that I meet with. Certainly the hand of the Lord is in this message. Of late I have tried the experiment of selling our tracts and papers. On Sundays, I usually sell from 75 cts. to $1.25 worth. Tuesdays the German boats call at this port on their passage from Bremen to New York. I generally spend two or three hours with the passengers, and find many interesting cases, frequently meeting with those who have heard of Bro. Matteson. His work has been heard of far and near, and they are quite anxious to secure our Swedish and Danish publications. Sometimes, when they learn that I am acquainted with Bro. M., and hold the same views, they will surround me, some crying his work down, while others advocate his teachings. On such occasions, tracts and papers are eagerly taken. There are four nationalities on these boats; namely, German, Swedish, Danish, and English. I usually sell from fifteen to twenty copies of Stimme der Wahrheit on each boat; also Danish, Swedish, and English papers, as well as tracts in the different languages. The papers are sold at the regular price of papers here, 2 cts. Tracts are put up in packages and sold at cost price. Last Tuesday the sales amounted to $1.16. Of course, I give some small tracts away. We all can see much light in placing publications in the hands of these emigrants, as they are going to all parts of the American continent, and will carry the truth to their friends; and then again, what an excellent chance of introducing our periodicals among those nationalities who will make their home in America. Our publications are attracting the attention of the people both on sea and land. The writings of Sr. White are eagerly sought for by those who have had the pleasure of reading them. I am glad to learn that our people are waking up to the subject of giving them a wider circulation. Some good results are known as the direct work of missionary labor on ships. Two persons, a man and wife, are fully with us in the faith. They are excellent people, and love the truth. Their visits to Ravenswood are eagerly looked forward to by both them and us when they are in port. They are both members of our T. and M. society, and have an excellent opportunity to circulate the truth among passengers. The work on land is progressing finely. Almost every mail brings us some encouragement. The members of the society recently organized here are in earnest to spread the truth. Copies of the Signs and tracts are sent to all parts of the kingdom. Some are keeping the Sabbath as the result. It takes longer here for people to weigh evidence than in America; but a good foundation is being laid. Calls are beginning to come in for the living preacher. Bro. Loughborough will commence meetings in the south of England on the 26th inst., in answer to one of the calls. May God bless this work in the new field in Taunton. We have adopted a new plan for doing missionary work, which I think would work well in your cities. In visiting from house to house with tracts, but few refuse to take them, although there are many who do not read them. Thus time is wasted. We now put the tracts up in packages, the first containing four of our 8-page tracts. These are enclosed with a wrap about two inches wide, on which the following is printed: Inclosed is a sample of tracts, to which I ask your earnest attention. I will call for them in about one week (D. V.) and take them up, unless you wish to keep them. If you should, you can have them for —. If those receiving them are at all interested, they will either purchase them or express a desire to keep them. With such we leave another package of a different kind, and continue until the truth is brought before them. In this way the interested readers can be found the second time around. The name or number of the house can be kept in a book, which will save confusion. The first time around a person can leave 100 packages in two hours. I can report that we are all of good courage. We take delight in working for our Master. God is good in permitting us to have a part to act in this message. Our desire is to consecrate ourselves more fully to his service, that he may use us as humble instruments in his vineyard. May God bless all your efforts at the head of the work, in sending out the rays of truth to the four quarters of the earth. Be of good courage, and increase your efforts as the end draws near, and if faithful you will see souls in the kingdom of God which you have been instrumental in saving. CALIFORNIA AS A MISSIONARY FIELD.
By B. C. Sickney
PROBABLY there is no place on the globe that presents a better field for missionary labor than California. Its cosmopolitan population has been called here from all parts of the world, by the mines and other rapidly developing interests; while its imports and the enormous quantity of grain and other products exported to foreign countries, together with the fact that it lies in the direct route of travel between the East and nearly all the countries of Asia, Australia, and the islands of the Pacific, secure for us a direct means of communication with nearly the whole civilized world. We are not, like the faithful missionary who visits foreign countries, under the necessity of consuming perhaps years in acquiring a knowledge of the language and habits of the people with whom we labor, but they are here among us, speaking our own language and having, to a great extent, adopted our manners and customs. We already have in our churches in this State representatives from ten or twelve different nations, and of course the knowledge they receive here is communicated to those whom they have left behind in their former homes; and in some instances their interest has been such that they have visited their native land that they might more readily impart the truths which they have received to their friends. Many steamers and ships have been visited here by the missionaries engaged in this work, and with but a single exception, and that was a French man-of-war, they have never failed to accept any reading matter that might be tendered them, and some of them are even willing to take our publications free of charge to any of the foreign ports which they enter. Nearly every week there are opportunities for preaching on board of vessels lying at our wharves, but on account of the scarcity of ministers it has been impossible to attend to many of these calls, although services have been held on three or four occasions, the audience at one time numbering over forty. Sometimes considerable interest is shown by the officers and crew on receiving the Signs, etc.; and on several occasions they have spoken of having seen the same paper in England. One captain donated five dollars to be used in this work, the only donation received for this mission since our camp-meeting. We are cheered by the encouraging reports from those engaged in visiting and laboring among our churches. When we get word from any locality that nearly all have adopted the plan of giving one-third for missionary purposes, we know that there is an interest there, and an earnest endeavor to have the work go forward. We long to see the time when our publishing house here will have all that it can do to supply the demand for our denominational work, to the exclusion of everything else. Our ministers alone cannot accomplish this, neither can the officers of the tract society; but it will require a united effort on the part of all. The magnitude of the work calls for earnest, sacrificing labor, and let us engage heartily in it, using every talent committed to our trust.—B. C. SICKNEY, in Signs. TRACT-SOCIETY LABOR IN MINNESOTA.
By Stephen Rose
SEVERAL weeks ago, having a burden for my nation and people, I left my home and started out to labor for them, not knowing where to go, but trusting in the Lord to direct. I visited a German settlement, and had the privilege of addressing the Sunday-school of the M. E. Church on the subject of the near advent of Christ, and the perpetuity of the law. The best of attention was paid, and the congregation showed no signs of weariness, though I spoke for more than an hour and a half. Those whom I have visited at their homes have subscribed for the Stimme der Wahrheit. After having acted as colporter during the day, I have for the past week employed my evenings in explaining the prophecies to the families where I have staid over night. The interest has been such that several times I have been urged to continue until midnight. I enjoy the work of a colporter, having labored for many years in that capacity for the American Tract Society. The local preacher, at whose house I staid two nights, was at first very bitter in his opposition to the Sabbath. But when I left him, he bade me “God speed” on my mission. A blacksmith on whom I called yesterday (a Roman Catholic) subscribed for our German paper. Our papers, tracts, and pamphlets are silent messengers which with the blessing of God are capable of accomplishing great good. If they express truths which are not congenial with the early training and established belief of the reader, he may throw them down angrily at first; but as they never retaliate, silently suffering all abuse, in due time he may pick them up again, become interested, convicted, and finally established in present truth. I appeal to the brethren, German and American, to spread the light of truth among our countrymen. If any have German tracts that they can spare, if they will send them to me, in care of Eld. S. Fulton, I will try in the fear of God to distribute them judiciously. Others may aid in the work of sowing good seed for eternity by sending their contributions to the REVIEW Office, for the purpose of purchasing tracts, and the Stimme der Wahrheit, to be sent here for circulation among the German people. May the Lord help us to remember that “he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” R. F. COTTRELL
By Roswell F. Cottrell
TO DIST. NO. 1, NEW YORK.
THE time is swiftly approaching when the Judgment in the sanctuary will decide the destiny of all for eternity. Do we realize it! and are we preparing for the event, striving to be ready for the close of our probation? My heart is often in great distress and heaviness for you, my brethren, fearing you may be lost, and that, too, through my unfaithfulness. Forgive me for my failures. I will still hope in God, and strive, by faithfulness in the future, to redeem the time and lay hold on eternal life. This is my one object in regard to myself, and I ardently desire the same for you. Will you unite with me in doing the work God has given us to do, and so secure the gift so freely offered to us? We have had warning after warning; but have we heeded them? Do we zealously repent of our wrongs? or have we regarded those warnings as idle tales? It is time that we show by our works—by earnest labor in the cause of God—that we believe that God is in this work, and that to disregard his voice will lead to ruin. Our words and works should show that we are zealously striving to put away our faults, taking hold of the work of the Lord in earnest, and in unison with the people of God. But I would not say a word to discourage any one. We may be saved, notwithstanding our past failures and sins. A strong and persevering effort, looking to God for help, will bring us back to the favor of God. A worldly, selfish spirit must be conquered, and a spirit of union and brotherly love must be cultivated. Each one who will engage in the work of love and union, caring for the souls of others, feeling that he is his brother’s keeper, will be revived and enjoy the approval of Heaven. There is a duty for each one to do, and no one can be excused from this duty because of the faults of others. Who, who will take hold with me to build up the cause here, to return to God from our backslidings, and engage with all our powers in the work of warning the world and saving our fellow-men? I will try. Give me your hand. Like Stars in Morning Light
—When morn has flushed the eastern sky,
And crowned the joyous day,
The splendor of ten thousand suns
Fades into space away;
So when God's light illumines the soul,
A glory wondrous bright,
All earthly objects fade away,
Like stars in morning light.
—Christian at Work. —Perhaps you are poor, but trying to seem rich; or with little culture, seeking to be thought learned; or being a “plain person,” impressive or polished. Give over the effort. It is most wearisome. It gets you into many difficulties. It takes all ease out of your life. Be real. Have one aim, not two or three. Let your eye be single. Do not look one way and pull another, as rowers must do. Let your eyes look on. Live a simple, natural, true life, with one main purpose, “that men may glorify your Father which is in Heaven,”—Dr. John Hall. —A heavy fire occurred in Oakland, Cal., on the 9th inst. —A tidal wave of Irish emigration to this country is predicted this spring. —The teachers of California ask for a professorship on the science of teaching. —The pope has instructed the Catholic bishops of Russia not to mix in political agitations. —A lady has opened a jewelry establishment in London, employing women for watch-makers. —The Spanish government has prohibited the importation of pork from this country and Germany. —The Anglo-American Cable Company are negotiating for a new ocean cable to be laid the coming summer. —London is considering the subject of buying out its water companies. The price proposed is £22,000,000. —It is estimated that the liquor traffic costs the government $17 for every dollar received as revenue from it. —The new French Cable Company expect to complete their connection with England via Brest by the first of April. —Australia is competing with the United States in sending beef and mutton to England by the dry cold air process. —There is a bill before the House of Representatives providing for legal tests to regulate the sale of oleomargarine. —Great Britain and Germany have agreed to co-operate in using their war vessels for the suppression of the slave-trade. —St. Paul's Cathedral, London, occupied 37 years in building, and cost £1,000,000, which was raised by a duty on coals. —The time fixed for the dissolution of the British Parliament is March 29. The new Parliament will convene early in May. —Kearney has been sentenced to 6 months in the house of correction and a fine of $1000; and quiet is restored to San Francisco. —The British garrison in a village about 50 miles northeast from Cabul, has been attacked by the Afghans, and completely routed. —The famine in Armenia and Kurdestan extends over an area of 100,000 square miles, in which the number of deaths is simply appalling. —Last year the farm products of Illinois amounted to $200,000,000, double the product of all the gold and silver mines in the country. —A colliery near Glasgow is on fire from an explosion; and 1000 men are thrown out of employment. One death resulted from the explosion. —The value of the exports from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands for the past three years has been $4,702,029, and from Boston $347,455. —A dispatch from Cape Town, South Africa, says that the general post-office has been robbed of all the diamonds awaiting shipment by mail, valued at £75,000. —In various parts of the country the “strikers” for higher wages are again repeating the folly of other years. “To learn from experience seems not to be one of their habits.” —The committee to which the German army bill was submitted, have approved the clause exempting the clergy from military drill, and have adopted the whole bill by a vote of 33 to 8. —A letter to the Tribune states that in the Brazilian province of Ceara, 200,000 persons have died from starvation, and 300,000 from pestilence; 250,000 people are now fed by government. —During the past year the accessions to the library of Congress were 21,367 books and 12,050 pamphlets. Jan. 1, the library comprised 374,022 books and about 120,000 pamphlets. —It is stated that at the close of the year 1879, there were in the world 10,207 members of the Order of Jesuits. Of this number 2,104 are missionaries, and the rest are engaged in teaching. —A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives for the repayment of the indemnity fund years ago extorted from Japan in excess of lawful demands. The sum to be refunded is $785,000 and accrued interest. —The pilot slept, and the iron steamship Montana went ashore on the British coast. The passengers were all saved, and it is thought the cargo will be; but there is a prospect that the splendid steamer will be an entire wreck. —The Socialists of New York City are opening schools to be held on Saturdays and Sundays, a prominent and avowed object of which seems to be to keep the children out of the Sunday-schools, and teach them to be free-thinkers. Within a few weeks past, about 700 Hungarians have landed at Castle Garden. These people have been driven from their homes by the famine which has swept over their own country, and most of them are entirely destitute. Many have found employment in the Pennsylvania mining districts. —There were in this country, at the end of 1879, about 84,000 miles of railroad; in Great Britain, according to the latest accurate statistics, 11,369 miles; in Prussia, 8,646 miles; France, in 1870, had 10,847; and Russia, in 1874, had 10,725 miles. —Two men who were out prospecting silver mines in Southern Colorado, were recently attacked and murdered by Indians; their bodies were found riddled with bullets and badly mutilated. Another party of 6 is believed to have shared a similar fate. —A strike of the train-men on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad will throw out of employment about 3,000 miners in no way connected with the strike. They are employed in coal mines to which this road affords the only outlet to market. —The two towers of the Cologne cathedral, which has been centuries in building, but is now nearly completed, are the highest in the world, being respectively 524 feet 11 inches and 515 feet 1 inch, while St. Peters, at Rome, is but 469 feet 2 inches. —The advance guard of the “Salvation Army” has reached this country from England, and commenced their work in New York City. This force consists of 5 country girls under the charge of Mr. Railton. They aim at nothing less than the “conversion of America.” —Bismarck has presented in the Reichstag a paper on emigration from Germany, in which he shows that during 1879, 33,327 persons, two-thirds of whom were males, left that country, by far the greater number going to the United States and British North America. —Spain has invited the European powers and also the United States to a Conference to be held in Madrid next June. The object is to determine the rights of protection exercised by foreign powers over the subjects of the Sultan; the treatment of the Jews will also be examined. —During the past year the Peters-pence collection amounted to upwards of $1,000,000. Of this sum, the Roman Catholics of France contributed nearly one-fourth. The contributions from the United States amounted to $180,000. The Holy See, however, still complains of poverty. —A committee of ladies entered Parliament recently, on the floor of the House, having a petition signed by 70,500 ladies asking for the Sunday closing of liquor houses in England. This is the first time women have ever appeared on the floor, a latticed gallery being assigned them. —The different European consuls residing in Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, have appealed to their respective governments for men of war to protect the European residents against the lawlessness and violence of an uprising of the people. The governor of Smyrna has asked the Porte for troops. —There is a bill before the Louisiana Legislature repealing the city charter of New Orleans, and handing over its assets to commissioners, with instructions to divide them among the creditors. When the creditors attempt to collect the unpaid balance, they will find themselves minus a debtor, the city of New Orleans having disappeared. —General Melikoff seems to hold the reins of government with a firm hand. A late dispatch says: “General Melikoff’s system of treating people with consideration and giving personal attention to public duties, raises a question whether a re-organization on this basis of the whole European empire of Russia might not be undertaken.” —The Statistical Bureau of Massachusetts reports 7,233 divorces in that State during the last 19 years, which is an average of one divorce to 36 marriages. This record is bad enough; but it shines in comparison with that of Vermont, Rhode Island, and especially Connecticut, in which the average is one divorce to 11 marriages. —The Nihilist Hartmann has confessed that he planned the recent attempt on the life of the Czar. He succeeded in escaping to France, and the French government refused to surrender him to the Russian authorities. Their refusal has resulted in a state of affairs which is little less than a suspension of diplomatic relations between the two nations. Hartmann is now in London, on his way to America. —The famine in Ireland is said to be increasing. In Donegal 73,000 persons are destitute. One of the greatest evils resulting from the famine in Ireland is its appalling effect on the children, 40,000 of whom are kept from school by extreme destitution of food and clothing. These little ones, even if they survive the pangs of hunger, will remain dwarfed and enfeebled in mind and body. —Greece is infested with brigands; no less than 13 distinct bands are enumerated. With the exception of the immediate vicinity of the towns, the whole country in the vicinity of Salonica is under their sway. The price asked by the band who hold Colonel Synge and wife has been taken to the British Consul. The brigands demand, as a primary condition of their release, that the troops after them be recalled. —China and Japan, the one incited by England and the other by Russia, are said to be making preparations for war with an energy that the Celestials, at least, were not supposed to possess. This is a part of the game between Russia and England which is now being played in Asia. In consequence of the belligerent attitude of China, the Russians have modified their plans relative to the Turcoman war, and have abandoned all designs of attacking Merv. —The Ferry Education Bill has become a law, with the 7th section, designed to prevent the Jesuits from teaching in France, stricken out. The Ministry now propose to enforce existing laws, which are said to be even more stringent. And the Jesuits are so fully convinced that they will be obliged to leave France, that they have caused all members of their fraternity who are not native Frenchmen to withdraw from that country. Spain and Belgium are the countries to which the Jesuits propose to emigrate. —The Alps have now been tunneled in two places. The Mt. St. Gothard tunnel is 9¼ miles in length, cost $9,700,000, and was finished in 7½ years. The rails will be laid about next August, when the tunnel will be opened for traffic. It is to be lighted with gas, and being straight, will ventilate itself. The St. Gothard is a mountain range in Switzerland, and is composed almost exclusively of solid rock. This tunnel gives Germany a means of direct railroad communication with the Mediterranean, and makes the journey from the Rhine Valley a matter of 6 instead of 30 hours. M. Louis Favre, of Geneva, was the contractor. The Mt. Cenis tunnel, 8 miles long, cost $15,000,000, and was constructed in 13 years, 1857 to 1870. Our own Hoosac tunnel, 4¾ miles in length, cost $13,000,000, and was finished in 11 years. —A dramatic scene was recently enacted in the Supreme Court of the United States. Joel Parker, of New Jersey, was admitted to the bar, when Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, recently admitted by a special act of Congress, rose, and moved the admission of another person. The “other person” turned out to be a coal-black negro from the South. The white man and the negro placed their hands on the Bible together, and took the customary oath, near the niche where the bust of Chief Justice Taney, the author of the Dred Scott decision, is placed. The most visionary prophets of the last decade would scarcely have ventured to predict that a negro, upon the motion of a woman, would have been enrolled among the counsellors of the Supreme Court of the United States. It was a commingling of conservatism and radicalism never before seen in that high place. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. Pierce.—Died of abscess of the liver, March 2, 1880, Sister Emma W., wife of Bro. F. C. Pierce, of Sedalia, Pettis Co., Mo., aged 28 years and 10 months. Sister Pierce had been keeping the Sabbath nearly two years, having embraced the truth under the labors of Eld. Geo. I. Butler in the summer of 1878. She was an exemplary Christian, and died with a firm hope of a part in the first resurrection. She leaves a husband and two children to mourn her loss, who are trying to live so as to meet her in the new earth. McReynolds.—Died of hemorrhage of the lungs and consumption, at the residence of his brother, F. M. McReynolds, near Lone Tree, Johnson Co., Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, J. W. McReynolds, aged 32 years and five months. He embraced the truths held by S. D. Adventists in the summer of 1862, and was baptized by Eld. Geo. I. Butler, at the camp-meeting held at Pilot Grove, Iowa. He ever endeavored to maintain a consistent life. The cause of truth was dear to him, and he was ever ready to assist in every enterprise for its advancement. The soon-coming of the Lord was a theme that he delighted to dwell upon. We have hope of meeting him in the resurrection of the just. Funeral discourse by Eld. H. Nicola. Thos. P. McReynolds. Peret.—Died of consumption, Feb. 28, 1880, at the residence of Dr. J. J. Peret, La Fayette, Ind., Mrs. Mary E., wife of A. S. Peret. Deceased was about 25 years old. She was brought up a Presbyterian, but after her marriage, herself and husband united with the Methodist church. About two years ago she attended the S. D. A. camp meeting at Kokomo, Ind., and afterward embraced that faith, since which time she has faithfully kept the commandments of God. She died triumphant in hope, leaving behind her a bright evidence that she had done the work given her to do, and was ready and willing to go down into the grave to rest until the Master shall come. J. J. Peret. Montgomery.—Died of consumption, Jan. 23, 1880, at the residence of her father, J. H. Mallory, near Winston, Daviess Co., Mo., Sister Rosa, wife of Bro. John Montgomery, aged 19 years, 8 months, and 27 days. The Prairie Valley church and Sabbath-school, of which she was a member five years, have lost a faithful worker, one who was always at her post. She leaves the evidence of a well-grounded hope to comfort the hearts of the many friends who are called to mourn. She was never heard to murmur at her affliction, but bore it with calm resignation. Sister M. was a great lover of music, and the last notes her sweet voice ever caroled were the stanza, “Why should we tremble to convey
The Christian to the tomb?” etc.,
Which she sung the night before she died. Funeral discourse by Eld. T. J. Butler, to a large concourse of sympathizing friends and neighbors. Subject, “The Christian’s Hope.” Luvina Butler. Hall.—Fell asleep, Feb. 20, 1880, in Wright, Mich., our beloved brother S. D. Hall, aged 79 years. During his protracted and painful illness he expressed a desire to rest with his son William, who labored so long and faithfully in the Office of the Review and Herald, and who died in hope in the year 1865. Bro. Hall embraced the truth twenty-seven years ago, uniting with the Battle Creek church. Nine years later he moved to the town of Wright, and was a member of that church until his death. On account of infirmities he had been deprived of the privilege of meetings for some time, but he adhered firmly to truth and righteousness. Less than forty-eight hours before his death, we celebrated the ordinances with him. His failing voice grew strong in praise, and his mind reached forward to the joyful meeting, over on the other shore, when with his dear Redeemer he would partake of this cup. His greatest desire was that his family might meet him again. May that desire be granted. Funeral services by the writer, assisted by Brn. Root and Edgar. Discourse from Ps. 116:15. E. S. Lane. Chalfant.—Died at my residence near Frankton, Ind., March 2, 1880, my daughter, S. M. Chalfant. She had partially recovered from an attack of phlegmasia dolens, and while sitting at the table, was suddenly attacked with thrombolism, and expired in about forty minutes. She was about twenty-four years of age, and had been a widow seven months, living with me as before her marriage. In early life she became a member of the Disciple church, and was always pious, living a very consistent life. Though her name stands on the record of that church, she has strictly and cheerfully kept every Sabbath since her widowhood. She leaves to our care an infant daughter only twenty days old. We intend to have Bro. Covert deliver a funeral address at some convenient time. W. H. Egbert. “Let us be patient; God has taken from us
An earthly treasure upon which we leaned,
That from the fleeting things that lie around us,
Our clinging hearts should be forever weaned. “Let us be cheerful; the same sky o’erarches—
Soft rain falls on the evil and the good;
Faith, hope, and love still in our hearts abiding,
May bear their precious fruit, according to the Word.” N. W. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
By H. C. Wentworth
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10.00 |
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3.10 |
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6.23 |
10.00 |
Lapeer |
8.08 |
8.53 |
11.15 |
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11.05 |
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7.20 |
8.05 |
9.30 |
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8.03 |
11.45 |
Durand |
6.00 |
7.00 |
6.36 |
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9.30 |
1.28 |
Lansing |
4.23 |
5.30 |
3.20 |
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2.18 |
Charlotte |
3.27 |
4.38 |
1.20 |
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11.27 |
3.45 |
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2.10 |
3.30 |
11.15 |
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Schoolcraft |
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11.17 |
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12.45 |
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3.45 |
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10.28 |
1.40 |
12.33 |
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1.15 |
2.37 |
1.38 |
3.02 |
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