WISCONSIN by John Atkinson

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 19.

WISCONSIN

By John Atkinson

During this Conference year I have visited twenty-four churches in the Wisconsin Conference, and have stirred them up to duty and diligence in the cause. Systematic Benevolence in some places has been increased, but in consequence of the frost killing the corn in some localities, and the chintz-bug injuring the wheat in others, and the pressure of money matters, many of the people are poor. It is possible in some places to urge the matter so hard that some pledge beyond their means. Quite an amount of money was raised on their Tract and Missionary Society pledges.

I also visited some isolated ones, who have been brought out through tract and missionary labor. Some of them are very intelligent, humble, and devoted souls. I have baptized fifteen. There are others that expect to go forward when practicable.

I have been laboring of late at Liberty Pole. Gave seventeen discourses. The result is that the church is strengthened and encouraged, four have embraced the truth, and others I think will do so. To God be all the glory. I have just closed my labors at the Sand Prairie church, it being a quarterly meeting occasion. Four united with the church; three by letter and one by baptism—twelve additions this Conference year.

The cheering reports from all parts of the field are very encouraging, progression being apparent almost everywhere. It would seem that the third angel’s message is swelling into the loud cry. May God help me to keep even pace with it, so that when called to give up my commission my work may be well done.

JOHN ATKINSON.