MINNESOTA

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1879

Maple Plain, March 30.—Our little company of ten, all but one heads of families, are standing firm, and growing in grace, and in the knowledge and love of the truth, which has made them free. We have organized a Sabbath-school, and appointed a leader among them. All the features of our work have been presented. They are taking hold of the health reform, and the tithing system, and temperance, and will engage in the T. and M. work as they are able. They are all in limited circumstances, but are willing to do what they can. The five families have subscribed for the Review and the Instructor, and have bought a partial supply of books. We shall close our work here for the present, to-night, hoping, if the Lord please, to return and organize them fully, before Conference.

We have been reminded here of the statement in Luke 23:12. Before our coming, the different sects were no more united than in other places, but since we have stirred them up by presenting the law and Sabbath and kindred truths, the Methodists have held a quarterly meeting at a station a mile from here, and at that meeting they held a union communion service, in which, we are told, Adventists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, and Presbyterians joined, being served jointly by the Methodist and Adventist ministers. I wonder if such think this is the union for which Christ prayed, John 17:20, 21. Have we not come to the fulfilment of Isa. 60:2: “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee”? Let that glory shine, be our daily prayer. D. P. CURTIS.

Oronoco, April 8.—After attending Eld. Haskell’s good meeting at Hutchinson, I returned to the New Haven church, which I had recently organized, to finish the work there. Since returning, I have baptized sixteen.

March 20, in compliance with an earnest request, I commenced meetings in Oronoco.

The attendance and interest have been good from the first. The most unpopular points of our faith have been presented without the least abatement in interest, but rather an increase. Some have taken a stand, and many are in the “valley of decision.” Bro. Battin has joined me, and has rendered some assistance. We ask the prayers of God’s people in behalf of the work here. GEO. M. DIMMICK.