Southern Wisconsin by H. W. Decker

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1875

Southern Wisconsin.

By H. W. Decker

Since the Sparta Camp-meeting, I have been laboring in this part of the State. July 15, Bro. Tenny and myself pitched our tent at Cooksville. We were kindly received by the people; had good congregations, and but little opposition. Many were convinced that we have the truth, but few were willing to obey it. Eight or ten are keeping the Sabbath as the result of the meetings.

We moved the tent about three miles to Stebbinsville. The weather soon became so cold that we had to take the tent down. Bro. Tenny went home, and I continued the meetings in a school-house in the vicinity. Twelve decided to keep the Sabbath. They will have meetings every Sabbath at 11 o'clock A. M. at the Miller school-house, five miles west of Edgerton. The Cooksville brethren will unite with them, making a company of over twenty. After closing my labors here, I visited Milwaukee. Found a company of German Sabbath-keepers numbering fifteen. The most of these received the Sabbath through the efforts of Bro. Reiman, who has been keeping it over three years in Milwaukee. He is a man of considerable ability, and was converted from the Catholic faith through the efforts of a minister of Landsberg, East Prussia, who is publishing a monthly paper in the German language, advocating the seventh-day Sabbath and the soon-coming of the Lord. Bro. Reiman says there is a company of between twenty and thirty Sabbath-keepers at Landsberg, and that there are a number of other companies in different parts of Prussia and Germany.

I have just commenced a course of lectures at Indian Ford, Rock Co., which is my address at present. Meetings will be held every evening; Sundays at half past ten, and in the evening. Brethren in this vicinity are invited to attend.

H. W. DECKER.

Indian Ford, Oct. 20, 1875.