Meetings in Minnesota by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1873

Meetings in Minnesota.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We now have some fifteen or sixteen bodies of believers in Minnesota. It seems important that I should visit each of these, and I know I should find enough to do for a week or more in each place. I would like to do this; but if I should, it would take at least four months to get around, and all the summer would be gone, and nothing done in new fields. This must not be. We therefore propose to hold about three general meetings, one at Hutchinson, one perhaps at Jo Daviess, and one at Greenwood Prairie, or near there. If a proper effort is made, two-thirds of those in the State can be at these meetings, baptisms can be had, and all business matters attended to. Then will come our camp-meeting, which all should attend. Then Bro. Haskell will hold about three general meetings in the State, in early fall. Besides this, Bro. Grant will probably visit the churches not directly reached by these meetings. On the whole, I think this will be doing quite well by our churches. Now, brethren and sisters, when these meetings are held, all make a special effort to attend. If you fail to do this, our efforts will be largely lost. Think of the urgent calls for labor everywhere, not one tithe of which can be filled. Now, brethren, while you have help, do all you can to make the most of it. I believe you will, and that we shall see a large turn-out at these meetings. That time is short, we begin to believe and feel as never before. Don't stay at home to make money to be burned.

My present address is Hutchinson, Minn.

D. M. CANRIGHT.