MONROE CO., WIS by O. A. Johnson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1876

MONROE CO., WIS.

By O. A. Johnson

MARCH 12, I commenced to speak to the people at Mt. Pisgah, Wis. The school-house was well filled the first evening, and the congregations continued good for about three weeks, when the meetings were broken up by bad weather and muddy roads. After a little more than a week, I resumed them, but on account of the bad going the number in attendance decreased. I continued to speak from three to five times a week, as the circumstances would permit. I met some opposition from different persons, but it seemed that the opposition had a tendency to help the progress of the work rather than to hinder it. The result of my effort, thus far, is that fifteen have commenced to keep the Sabbath. These, added to the few who were there before, make the number of Sabbath-keepers about twenty.

June 9, Eld. Olson came to my aid, and held a number of meetings with us. On the following Sunday, nineteen covenanted to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. On the same day sixteen were baptized by Eld. Olson. We expect to return soon, and organize them more fully and get them into working order. I have realized much of God's blessing as I have feebly tried to show the people their duty to God, and the necessity of preparing for judgment. I desire to remain humble before God, and to do his will.

O. A. JOHNSON.

Mt. Pisgah, Wis., June 21, 1876.