p. 45 | SOUTH DAKOTA by L. Johnson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1900

SOUTH DAKOTA.

By L. Johnson

SWAN LAKE.—After our good meeting at Sioux City, I went to Swan Lake, where, Sunday, November 12, the new church building was dedicated. Elder Millman, the president of the Conference, and Brother H. L. Henriksen, who has lately arrived from Denmark, were also present. The congregation numbered about two hundred and fifty, about all that could be seated. All paid marked attention to the word spoken, both in the English and in the Danish language.

The church was organized by Elder J. T. Hansen, Sept. 11, 1875. It then had seven members. The first meeting-house was built in the spring of 1878, and was twenty by thirty feet. When it was decided to build this church, the writer was there for the first time. In 1884 twenty feet was added to the length of it, and now the new church is built upon the same place where the old one stood. It is

twenty-four by forty-two feet, with a gallery and a classroom fourteen by twenty feet. At present the church has eighty-two members.

We had good meetings, and from the first the interest increased. I only wished we could have remained longer; and that was the wish of all. May the Lord not only keep these dear brethren, but may he increase their number, and may all be wholly sanctified. L. JOHNSON.