The Cause in Minnesota by Harrison Grant

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 29, 1875

The Cause in Minnesota.

By Harrison Grant

I HAVE been trying to do what I could in the Conference thus far through the spring and summer. Left home in April. Held quarterly meetings at Blue Earth City, Tennessee, and Cherokee. May 15, ’16, held meetings with the Mankato church. Two were baptized, and five united with the church.

May 22, 23, held a meeting at Kingston. A company was raised up here last winter by Bro. Hill. As those who embraced the truth here are in two localities it was thought best to organize two separate churches. I baptized eight, and organized a church of six members at Kingston, and one at North Kingston of eleven members. Also organized S. B. and left them rejoicing in the truth.

May 22, met an appointment at Karonas. Here I found a strong company brought out by the labors of Bro. Dimmick and Fulton. Sunday morning we all retired to the banks of a beautiful lake, when eighteen followed their Lord in baptism. We then returned to their house of worship, and organized a church of nineteen members. This church was admitted into our Conference at one of its late sessions, as were also the churches of Kingston and North Kingston.

June 5 and 6, we enjoyed an excellent meeting at Grove Lake. At this meeting, I baptized five who united with the church. Two of them took a stand when Elder Haskell was there last winter. I then visited the field where Bro. Hill and Decker were laboring. There I found a good interest. About twenty had commenced to keep the Sabbath, and others were very much interested.

June 12 and 13, met with the brethren at Corinna. Here is a company brought out by the labor of Bro. Ells last spring. Three were baptized, and I partially organized a church, and they have been taken under the watchcare of our Conference.

As I was nearly one hundred miles from our camp-ground, I started for Eagle Lake, which I reached Friday, and in connection with the Conference and Camp-meeting Committee worked on the ground to prepare for our camp-meeting.

Now our camp-meeting has closed, and our brethren and sisters have returned to their homes, determined to live nearer to God and to lead better lives than ever before. May God help the dear brethren and sisters to put all their good resolutions into practice, and be prepared to meet Jesus when he comes.

I was with the church at Golden Gate last Sabbath. We had an excellent meeting, one which will be long remembered. We have three forty-foot tents in the field. Bro. Curtis and Ells are in Wright Co.; Bro. Hill and Morse have pitched their tent in Todd Co.; Bro. Dimmick and Call are giving a course of lectures in the tent in Brown Co., with a good interest. I have been with them three or four days, and I think I never saw a better interest.

Sabbath and Sunday last, the hearts of the people here in Redwood Co., were made sad by seeing the grasshoppers come down upon their fields in abundance. I never saw anything like it. They looked like large snowflakes coming down in a storm. Large wheat-fields and gardens have been nearly or quite destroyed within the last few days. Oh, how little we know what a day may bring forth! God help us to be faithful, keep pace with the message, and prepare to stand upon Mount Zion with the redeemed.

HARRISON GRANT.

Redwood Co., July 12, 1875.