Dedications in Wisconsin
By William Covert
WE held a series of meetings and dedicated a church building at Clear Lake, Wis., November 27-30. Elder J. B. Locken and Brother C. D. AcMoody were present to assist in the services. Sister Lottie Farrell was also there in the interest of the church-school work. At all the services the house was quite well filled with attentive listeners. A commodious little meeting house worth about five hundred dollars was formally dedicated to the service of the Lord on Sunday, November 29. This building was entirely free from debt. Arrangements were made to increase the order for the special number of The Signs of the Times three hundred copies. I also visited a newly organized church at Barron the evening of the thirtieth, and talked to them in regard to missionary work. They ordered five hundred copies of the Capital and Labor number of The Signs of the Times. I next went to Eau Claire, December 1, and continued meetings over the following Sunday, December 6. On the last day of the series of meetings we dedicated a new house of worship in that place. Elders T. B. Snow and J. B. Scott, and also Brother L. L. French, were present to assist in the services. The interest in our meetings increased as long as we remained there. Five hundred copies of the Capital and Labor number of The Signs of the Times were added to the order which they had already made. This paper was meeting a ready sale in that city. An immense number of copies could be sold if the proper effort could be made. The prospect in Eau Claire seems quite favorable for an increase of membership in the church. It would have been quite agreeable to our feelings if we could have remained longer to conduct meetings in the new church building, but the large amount of conference business at this season of the year made it necessary to return to the office. Elder Scott is spending most of his time this winter in the new sanitarium at Madison, doing pastoral work with the patients, and also conducting meetings in the People’s church in the city. He reports that some have lately accepted the truth in the sanitarium, some in connection with his labors in the church, and one family who were attending his services at the People’s church. Had it not been for his interest in Madison, he could have remained in Eau Claire, but as it is, Elder Snow and his wife will follow up the work there. WM. COVERT.