Neenah, Wis by John Matteson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1871

Neenah, Wis.

By John Matteson

THE meetings among the Danes in this place have continued nearly four weeks. The second week the attendance decreased and some drew back as the claims of God’s holy law were presented; but the two last weeks the interest to hear has been good and increased to the last. We have held thirty-one meetings. Eleven have decided to keep the commandments, and others are convinced. The Lord has favored us with his blessing, and souls have become interested in salvation, who before were careless. Two have subscribed for the REVIEW, and three for the Reformer. Most of them cannot read the English language.

June 13, I was called in the forenoon to preach the funeral sermon of a young man who worked on the steamboat, but fell overboard and was drowned. A few evenings before, he had been present at our meeting in health; now he was a corpse, having been suddenly stricken down, unprepared. So uncertain is life. How necessary to prepare, dear reader, to meet thy God.

In the afternoon, four willing souls were buried with Christ in baptism. I leave to-day on account of other appointments, but will return, the Lord willing, in about two weeks.

JOHN MATTESON.

Neenah, Wis., June 14, 1871.