Minnesota Camp-Meeting.
By John McMillan
I wish to give public expression of my gratitude to God for his Spirit’s presence at the Minnesota camp-meeting. No human instrumentality, unaided by God, could have produced such glorious results. The blessing attending the labors of Eld. Canright for the past year in Minnesota, prepared the way, and the clear and harmonious manner in which Elders Butler, Canright, and Matteson, showed our relation as a people to prophecy, removed every doubt from the minds of the brethren, and convinced the gainsayer. Probably the majority of the brethren in Minnesota, while fully believing some of the prominent parts of our faith, and standing committed on it as a whole, while they could not disprove any of it, looked upon some of the connecting links of it as rather nonessential. This was unavoidably a cause of barrenness of soul, and when these seeming nonessentials were shown, beyond a possibility of a doubt, to be indispensable in the last message to mankind, as these truths were gradually brought to bear on the mind, an unmistakable evidence lit up the countenance, and soul-felt testimonies, burning with love to God and man, compelled outsiders (who care for none of these things), to say, Of a truth, God is with you. The fruits of that meeting, the Judgment will unfold. As an occasion offered, I embraced the opportunity of conversing with many of the prominent citizens of the place, all of whom give evidence that their hearts are touched by what they have seen and heard, and they expressed a desire to be permitted to give of their substance to secure our meetings permanently at that place. Dear brethren and sisters, we who were permitted to enjoy that meeting will have to render an account how we improve and use the light we received. Will our families and neighbors be benefited by us, and so share the blessing, or will we ungratefully and selfishly hide our light till it dies for want of air? Dear friends, many of us have admitted present truth long enough; let us from henceforth feel it, and act accordingly.