Chicago, Ill by John Matteson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 6, 1873

Chicago, Ill.

By John Matteson

AFTER the Conference, I labored four weeks in Chicago. The weather was very unfavorable most of the time, consequently the attendance was less than it otherwise might have been; yet we were blessed in our meetings and encouraged to go forward in the work of the Lord. Six willing souls were buried with Christ in baptism, and three more united with the church, making nine in all. This church now numbers forty-four members. $67.60 was added to their s. B., making their s. B. $334.06 per year. The brethren are mechanics and day-laborers, most of them, without property, and some are in debt. Thus it is quite hard for them to meet their yearly payments on the lot on which the chapel stands; yet the Lord has blessed their earnest efforts hitherto, and we trust that he will continue to help.

Eld. Lewis from N. Y., Seventh-day Baptist, was with us Sabbath, March 29, and preached an interesting discourse. The next Sabbath and Sunday, Eld. Canright preached. On a former Sabbath we would have had Eld. Carpenter, S. D. Baptist, with us, who, with his wife, was on his way to China, there to spend the rest of his days, laboring among the heathen; but we missed this because there was no notice of our place of meeting in the REVIEW. Every Sabbath, the religious exercises are Danish in the forenoon and English in the afternoon. Our brethren who stop over Sabbath in Chicago are cordially invited to meet with us at 269 W. Erie St.

Scandinavian meetings are held in the chapel every week as follows: Evening after first day, missionary meeting. Three or four brethren generally speak on a text or subject. These meetings are often attended by quite a number of outsiders. Evening after third-day, prayer-meeting. Sabbath evening, prayer-meeting. Sabbath forenoon, prayer and social meeting. Evening after Sabbath, Bible-class. JOHN MATTESON.

Busseyville, Jeff. Co., Wis., April 20, 1873.