Church Organized in Kenyon, Minnesota Work Progresses
By Harrison Grant
I AM spending the most of my time this winter in looking after the wants of the cause in Minnesota, and in helping to carry forward the tract and missionary work here. Nov. 2, Bro. Pierce and myself met with the brethren and sisters at Kenyon, and organized a church of eight members. Others, I think, will join soon. Bro. Ells was chosen to lead the meetings. I have also attended the quarterly meetings at Concord, Pine Island, and Greenwood Prairie. Nov. 28, I went to Sauk Center. There I learned that the quarterly meeting would be held at Grove Lake. This is the place I visited last summer, and found a few keeping the Sabbath. They had never seen any of our ministers, but they had kept up their Sabbath meetings, been scattering tracts, and praying for the Lord to send them help. They felt and realized that they knew but little of the work and power of the third angel’s message. Bro. Dimmick and Hill have been laboring here for a few weeks. Twenty have commenced to keep the Sabbath. The interest is still good. I remained here over two Sabbaths, and the last evening the house was crowded. Others are making up their minds to obey the truth and keep all the commandments. I wish to say a word to the lonely, scattered ones here in Minnesota. If you want to see your neighbors take hold of the truth, be in earnest yourselves. Begin to scatter tracts which will open the way for the messengers to go to work. Become a member of the tract and missionary society, then send to the director or librarian for tracts which teach our fellow-men the way of salvation. I would say to all the members of the T. and M. society here in Minnesota, that we now have on hand plenty of tracts and reading matter for you to scatter in any town, village, or neighborhood. I hope you who have been praying that God would speed on the message will act your part in opening the way for the good work to go forward. Last Sabbath we held a quarterly meeting with the Crystal Lake church. We had an excellent meeting. There we met the director and secretary of district No. 2, with three boxes of tracts, looking after the wants of the missionary work in that part of his district.