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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 22.

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WISCONSIN

By O. C. Godsmark

IT has been my privilege during the last winter to labor for the Master in Wisconsin. The general meeting held in Milwaukee, January 22-28, was of unusual interest and profit to the laborers in this State. As the different phases of the work were studied, the Holy Spirit came in and witnessed to the work we are trying to do.
While at Milwaukee, it was my privilege to meet with the companies at Watertown and Racine. At each of these places our people are earnestly doing what they can to further the message of present truth.
I spoke several times in the Helping Hand Mission, to the sin-hardened men who came in from the lower walks of life; and I wish to emphasize the statement that it is a mistake that these men, many of them literally out of the gutter, can not, and will not, receive the distinctive truths that have made us, as a denomination, what we are. We preached the plain, straight-cutting truths of the Third Angel's Message, in a simple manner, to these seemingly ignorant men, and it was a satisfaction to see how eagerly they listened, and how intelligently they questioned regarding the truths bearing upon the subjects presented.
God has especially raised us up, as a distinct people, to do a specified work; that is, to live, talk, teach, write, and preach the Third Angel's Message. And when we leave this special, God-given work to preach only the general principles of the gospel, that have been applicable to all ages since the fall of man, what better do we than the popular ministry around us, who are not giving the trumpet any certain sound!
After the good State meeting it was my privilege to speak to the churches at Portage, Dell, Star, and Readstown. In company with Elder Shreve, I spent some time in the Kickapoo Valley, where we felt that a good work was done. Every branch of the message in Wisconsin is certainly onward, and our people are of good courage, and are pressing the battle to the gates.
My address is 865 5th St., Milwaukee, Wis.
O. C. GODSMARK.