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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 2, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 20.

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Montcalm Co., Mich.

By C. Jenson

April 1, 1871, I met with my Danish brethren in Montcalm Co., Mich., for quarterly meeting, and was greatly surprised to see every member of the church present, though some had been sick previously, and thought they could not endure the meeting. I made a few remarks on the necessity of exercising living faith combined with Christian charity. We then had a social meeting in which all took an active part, and we all felt that our spiritual strength was renewed.
Met again in the afternoon, and had the ordinances of the Lord’s house. We had such a heavenly blessing that even the most feeble ones expressed their gratitude to God for his gracious refreshment. I think the blessed and gracious institution of the Lord’s supper should be appreciated more. God knows that we need the ordinances, and he gives us them for our spiritual welfare. Why should not his children esteem it a privilege and a necessity to use his gracious gifts and institutions?
In my judgment, the church here has in a measure grown in grace, unity, and knowledge. One thing has been a burden on my mind for a long time; that is, that we as a people should remember that we who in time past were far off, have been made nigh by the blood of Christ, and are now under the fashioning hand of God. These remarks are more especially to my Scandinavian brethren and sisters. We should remember the multitudes of our countrymen, who, though professing to be Christians, are at the present, the most of them, without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world; and only one man has fully given himself to proclaim the last message of mercy to the perishing people.
We are admonished from the word of our Saviour, that the Lord of the harvest will send forth laborers; and I will here suggest that we from this time and hence reverently and continually make it an important subject in our prayers. Let us believe that we have a prayer hearing and prayer answering God. Praise his holy name!
C. JENSON.
Montcalm Co., Mich.