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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 22.

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Fremont, Wisconsin.

By S. D. Smith

HEAR what the Lord has done for us in this place. I came here from Minnesota, where I had formerly lived, and found one sister still firm in the truth who embraced the Sabbath ten years ago, under the labors of Bro. Matteson. We, with two or three others who were feebly holding on to the truth, commenced holding meetings. We earnestly besought the Lord to send a messenger here to proclaim the truth once more, and not many weeks elapsed before a letter came from Bro. Olds, who was in search of a field of labor. We gladly replied, describing the field before him. He came, and labored earnestly all winter. The result was a company of twenty-five or thirty Sabbath-keepers, who are to-day nearly all pressing forward. Some have fallen out, and others have taken their place.
By earnest, untiring industry we have enclosed and painted a commodious house of worship, and with some assistance we hope to finish the inside the coming spring. Thus far, we are in debt but a few dollars. The people of the place are highly pleased with our house. We have kept up our regular Sabbath meeting and weekly prayer-meetings, Sabbath-school, and Bible-class, and still the work goes on. Pray for us, brethren, that we may come up to the help of the Lord, and be ready to meet him with joy and not with grief.
Dear brethren and sisters, I feel it is important that we walk in the light; for if we get into the dark how great is that darkness! When I look out upon the world, and see the people groping their way along, not knowing whither they are going or what is before them, I think of Pharaoh and his host who wandered about in darkness three days while the children of Israel had light in all their dwellings. Ex. 10:22, 23. So God has caused great light to shine in all our dwellings. May the Lord help us to walk in the light, and let some of its rays shine out before those around us, that they may be led to walk in the light of God's truth, and so be saved to glorify his name.
S. D. SMITH.
Nov. 19, 1875.