p. 16 | North Michigan by S. E. WIGHT

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 25, 1906

North Michigan

By S. E. WIGHT

Since camp-meeting most of my time has been spent in visiting churches and working in cities where Bible workers are giving lessons. I am glad to report that the third angel's message is being received by people in this field. Within the last three months twenty-seven have been baptized.

In Munising, a small village in sight of the famous “Pictured Rocks,” of Lake Superior, Miss Isabella Campbell has scattered many thousand pages of literature and given many Bible readings. At the time I was there, she had visited every home in and about Munising except three, and these she expected to visit at her earliest opportunity.

Although she has met with great opposition, and the ministers have tried to hold their members, five have taken their stand for the truth. One of these lived at Mancelona at the time our first camp-meeting was held there, and attended a few of the meetings. At this time she was visited by a Bible worker, but refused to take the studies. Soon after the camp-meeting she moved to Munising, and, remembering the visit of the Bible worker in Mancelona, decided that if another opportunity presented itself, she would accept such help. She made inquiry in this place for Seventh-day Adventists, and finding Sister Campbell, invited her to give readings at her house. This illustrates what just a visit will do for individuals.

There are many nationalities in this conference. The Finnish people enlist my sympathy because we have done so little for them. Their publishing house is located in our territory at Laleva. There are twenty thousand of these people in Hancock and Calumet, and we have only one canvasser to give them the third angel's message.

During my visit in the copper country, in company with a canvasser I called to see a Finnish doctor who has been somewhat interested in the truth. After some conversation about our work, he asked me why we made medical work and health foods essential to salvation. I told him that we did not, but he said, “You do, and I believe you should teach salvation through Christ, and not in such things.” I tried to disabuse his mind of this, but could not until I learned that he had the “Battle Creek Idea.”

After I assured him that we do believe in salvation through Christ, and that the medical missionary work of Seventh-day Adventists is the good Samaritan work, he told me that he had read “Great Controversy,” and that it was filled with the real, genuine gospel that he had not seen in the denomination, viewing it as set forth by some of our professed leaders.

He seemed much pleased to know that Seventh-day Adventists, as a people, believed in the gospel as set forth in the Bible and as taught by the author of the “Great Controversy.” People not of our faith are watching us to see the genuine gospel wrought out in our lives.

S. E. WIGHT.