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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 8, 1877

MINNESOTA

Wrightstown, Otter Tail Co.

I began labor at this place Feb. 5, and have now given seventeen discourses. Last evening we asked all who had fully made up their minds to keep all the commandments to sign the covenant. It was signed by fifteen. We think others will sign when they have an opportunity. All that were present last evening bore testimony, the most of them for the first time in their lives. We feel like commending these dear souls to God, who is able to build them up and save them in the great day.

I now visit those who have recently embraced the truth in Douglass Co., after which I shall return to carry the work still farther, if it is the Lord’s will. Pray for me. JOHN S. COLLINS.

Faribault.

All who have resolved to move out seem firm. They were members of the M. E. Church, backsliders, and those who never had made a profession. Last Wednesday evening, the 14th, was their first prayer meeting. The Spirit of God was with us and we were much encouraged.

Last Sabbath, the 17th, we organized a Bible class. On Sunday we presented the covenant. It was signed by eleven, and the proper church officers were chosen.

D. C. Birch. H. F. Phelps.