p. 206 | JOHN. MATTESON by John Matteson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1875

JOHN. MATTESON

By John Matteson

Iowa.

After the time of my last report, I went to a settlement of Norwegian Quakers who live in Marshall Co. There are about 200 of them. I distributed a number of tracts among them, visited several families, got four subscribers for Advent Tidende, and held one meeting with them. After that, I stopped a week among the Danes in Marshalltown, where some were interested to examine the truth. I obtained nine subscribers for the Tidende and sold several dollars’ worth of tracts. One commenced to keep the Sabbath, and several others are convinced of the truth. There are many Swedes in this place.

When I returned to Grundy Co., I found the friends all firm in the truth. Three more were baptized, and a church organized of twenty-two members. Bro. A. Peterson was unanimously chosen and ordained elder. Frederik Olsen (Box 50, Cedar Falls, Iowa) is clerk. The brethren and sisters pledged about $108.00 S. B. to the Conference for the coming year. Three more keep the Sabbath and meet with them. Two of them desire to be baptized at the next opportunity. I am now at home writing for the Tidende.

JOHN. MATTESON

June 11, 1875.