Brown Co., Wis by Francis Depas

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1873

Brown Co., Wis

By Francis Depas

Wisconsin.

WE have not, up to the present time, had the pleasure of hearing the present truth preached among us in the French language, by one of God's servants. I feel an interest to report what God's grace and Jesus' power have done among the French in this place, although it must be done in a tongue which is not mine, and in which I have no education. For this work, God be praised.

Last November, I started in the present truth, hoping in the blessing of God, whose promise has not been in vain. There are now four families keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and are strong in the message of the third angel of Revelation, and in the faith of the soon coming of Jesus for the gathering of his people. Ten have decided to go forward in the ordinance of baptism; among them is a man over seventy years old, who has been confined to a bed of sickness for nine months. His only hope of recovery is to see one of God's servants among us, hear more of the plan of salvation, and be baptized. May God hear our prayer, and send us help by the one he will choose himself to send among us.

We have much opposition and persecution, but this is the way by which to enter the kingdom of God. We look to Him who is almighty and knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation. The words of the apostle Peter apply to all of God's people: “Wherein we greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations; that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.”

The harvest truly is great and the laborers are few; and none among us. Pray for the success of the cause among the French in Wisconsin. FRANCIS DEPAS.