STEELE CO., MINN by John Gottlieb Matteson

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 1, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 22.

STEELE CO., MINN.

By John Gottlieb Matteson

In Allamakee Co., Iowa, I labored three weeks among the Swedes. They were in need of help, and God blessed our feeble efforts. Many outsiders attended the meetings, and some received the truth. Bro. Swedberg was ordained elder among these brethren.

April 24, I started for Minnesota. Held meetings among the Danish brethren in Freeborn Co. about a week and a half. This labor was timely, and the Lord helped and blessed our efforts. The brethren learned some of the better way, and others have also commenced to obey the truth. Bro. Hans Rasmussen was chosen and ordained elder. Some of these brethren have made hard times for themselves in the past, but there is now some prospect of better days in the future.

This week I have labored with the Danish brethren in Steele Co. These were more noble than those in Freeborn Co., in that they had settled their own difficulties, and lived in harmony together. They were also very punctual; for at the appointed hour all were ready to commence meeting. They tried to gather with Christ. We held eleven meetings—mostly in the daytime. The Spirit of God had free course as well as the truth, and all seemed to wake up. Nine precious souls were buried with Christ in baptism, and six others have taken hold of the truth and are keeping the Sabbath. Some had commenced before I came; others started at those meetings. The church now numbers twenty-three members, and there are thirty-one Sabbath-keepers who meet together to worship. Bro. C. Nelson is their elder.

I am now on my way to Brown Co., where I intend to labor till the Iowa Camp-meeting. JOHN G. MATTESON.

Meriden, Minn., May 16, 1876.