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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 38 Page: 660 (~1830)

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660 The Saints of New England held a reunion at Jonesport, Maine, commencing August 3 and terminating August 10. The meetings were held in the church made historic by the association with it of the movement of Elder George J. Adams, who organized a church there known as the Church of the Messiah, the members of which principally emigrated to the Holy Land in 1866. There were present and participating in the reunion the following ministers: Joseph Smith, John C. Foss, U. W. Greene, W. H. Kelley, F. M. Sheehy, J. N. Ames, A. H. Parsons, G. W. Eaton, W. H. Garrett, G. W. Robley, S. W. Ashton.

Mrs. Jane Couser wrote from Detroit, Michigan, August 12, giving an account of two very remarkable cases of healing. She says:

I desire to give my testimony to the truth of this work. I know it is of God, and that the signs follow them that obey. I have seen them made manifest in my own house, for I have been healed. The doctor said I could not live, only a few hours. I was instantly healed through the administration of Bro. Rathbun. My little girl was very low with scarlet fever and sore throat. She was so far gone that we lifted her eyelids, and there was not one twitch of the eye. About one hour after she was administered to she began to move and she got well.

A grove-meeting was held near Marcellus, Michigan, September 5 to 8, which was participated in by the following ministers: Hiram Rathbun, Elder Kiefer, and John Shook.

There was a grove-meeting held in Ray County, Missouri, commencing September 13, and continuing over the 21st. John T. Kinneman presided, and C. E. Butterworth acted as secretary. Elder J. R. Lambert was present and assisted in the services. There was also a grove-meeting held from September 13 to 21, at a grove near Wilber, Nebraska. James Caffall and J. W. Waldsmith presided; C. H. Porter acted as secretary. There were also present and participating in the meetings, W. W. Blair, R. M. Elvin, Levi Anthony, and Robert White.

It was during the month of September, 1890, that the work in the Sandwich Islands commenced. Elder Albert Haws had been appointed to that field at the General Conference of 1890, and provision made for the first

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