WISCONSIN by Jethro Kloss

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1901

WISCONSIN

By Jethro Kloss

CECIL.—My wife and I are in a German community, where the people are nearly all members of the Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, or Catholic churches. In the first place, one minister strictly forbade me to visit any of his people. A little later another did the same thing, adding that he would counsel with the other ministers, and they would so warn the people that they would close their doors on us.

These methods proving unsuccessful, three ministers went to the town board to induce them to turn us out of the town hall, in which we hold meetings. However, the board would not be coerced, but said that they had given us the use of the hall, and would not take it away. This attempt failing, the parents were visited, and instructed not to send their children to the children's meeting, which we hold twice a week, as it would only confuse them. Many of the children still attend. The ministers follow us from house to house. They have taken the tracts from them, and induced them to promise not to attend our meetings. One man burned a copy of “Bible Readings.” Their helpers also visit those who have become interested in the truth.

Although some turn away, many still receive us gladly. Dusty Bibles are brought forth, and new ones purchased. There is quite a stir here, occasioned by the message. Satan does not grow tired nor discouraged. He tries plan after plan, old and new. I truly believe that if God's people would work with such determination to save souls as Satan does to destroy, much more would be accomplished. Let us work untiringly, for we are admonished “to preach the word of light to those whom we may judge to be as hopeless as though they were in their graves.” JETHRO KLOSS.