p. 182 | Baraboo, May 25, 1875 by I. Sanborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 3, 1875

Baraboo, May 25, 1875

By I. Sanborn

Wisconsin.

SINCE my last report, I have spent twelve days at Leon, Monroe Co., where Brn. Decker and Atkinson held a tent-meeting last summer. I held seventeen meetings and the interest increased to the close. Near the close of the meetings I baptized nine and organized a church numbering twenty-three members. I think there are a few others that may yet be persuaded to embrace the truth and unite with them.

I am sorry that a tent-meeting could not have been held at Sparta before the camp-meeting. I think it might have done much good.

From Leon I went to Lyons, near Baraboo, in Sauk Co., according to appointment in Review, where I met fifty-seven Sabbath-keepers. With many of them, this was the first quarterly meeting they ever attended. Nearly all took part in the prayer and social meeting Sabbath morning. The meetings were all very solemn, and the preaching seemed to deeply impress every heart with the importance of a continual growth in all the graces of the Spirit and in the truth of God. It is only by seeking for a close walk with God that we can gain a moral fitness for successfully carrying on the work of the Lord here and an inheritance in the kingdom of God. Three were baptized, and two more united with the church. A Sabbath-school was organized. All seemed to be much encouraged to press on in this good work.

I pray that we all may be kept by the power of God unto the day of salvation.

My post office address, until further notice, will be Hurricane Grove, Grant Co., Wis. I. SANBORN.