_Superior Mission Field_
By D. T. Bourdeau
JUNE 10-12, by invitation of the Superior Mission Committee and in harmony with the counsel of leading brethren of the General Conference Committee, I came to the city of Menominee, Mich., to help prepare the way for a camp-meeting, which was held at this point June 25 to July 5, and proved to be a potent means of giving an impetus to a young cause in a needy field, and a great blessing to both believers and unbelievers. The number of believers at this meeting was necessarily small; but God more than made up for this by drawing very near to his people and to some not of our faith. Especially was this true at a social meeting the first Sabbath of this precious feast. At this meeting Americans, Germans, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Belgian French, and Canadian French took part, with faces radiant with joy, and with words comporting with the message of salvation near, and evincing a real, solid enjoyment of the service of our Lord and Master. This remarkable season caused my mind to revert to the day of Pentecost, and led me as well as others to take in more fully the importance of the work in a field in which so many nationalities are represented. It was to me a great pleasure to be here days take part in pastoral and evangelistic18work with the laborers of this mission field, whose efforts have been blessed of God to the conversion of souls, and with the presidents of the Wisconsin, West Michigan, and Northern Illinois Conferences, and with others having the charge of the canvassing work. This meeting and reports of the same, which, through the kindness of broad-minded editors, have appeared in Catholic and Protestant or undenominational papers, have done much in removing prejudice, and opening the way for further effort in the twin cities of Menominee, Mich., and Marinette, Wis., which are separated by only a comparatively small river. Some are under conviction, and a few are receiving the truth, largely as the result of this good meeting; and now a tent effort is being made by Elders E. R. Williams, M. W. Lewis, and H. R. Johnson, and the writer at a point in Menominee at which I had briefly labored in cottage meetings for a small company of French Spiritualists. The interest among those of different nationalities in this so-called gospel-hardened part of Menominee, is rather more than ordinary. One Frenchman is receiving the message, and one who was a leading French Spiritualist, and who is now on his dying bed, enjoys my efforts in pointing him to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of penitent believers, and will soon return to save his children of every nation, people, and tribe under the sun. If the work is pushed forward wisely, perseveringly, and with thoroughness, in fine, as it used to be in apostolic times and in the early history of the message, a large church will be the fruit of efforts put forth in the cities of Menominee and Marinette. D. T. BOURDEAU.