Chicago, Ill by John Matteson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 24, 1874

Chicago, Ill.

By John Matteson

I HAVE been holding meetings in Chicago the last four weeks and a half with unusual good interest. Have held from nine to eleven meetings a week. Thirteen willing souls were baptized, and sixteen united with the church. The present number of members is fifty-nine, but four or five of these have been for some time backslidden, and will probably leave us. The Lord has helped us very much in these meetings, bringing conviction to many hearts, so that they had no rest nor peace day nor night before they gave themselves to serve the Lord. Many more are under conviction. The brethren are much encouraged and feel united in the truth.

I had to break away from the interest in Chicago, and come to this place, where they hired a house and came together to hear a week ago, but had to go home disappointed. It is a new field, but the Advent Tidende has visited about twenty-five families for over a year, and some have commenced to obey the truth, while others desire very much to hear.

JOHN MATTESON.

Box 552, Racine, Wis., Feb. 11, 1874.