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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 23, 1877

WISCONSIN

Marquette Co., Tent No. 5.

WE have held twelve meetings at Westfield, with an average attendance of about one hundred and seventy-five, who have listened attentively. The interest is good. People come in from country places eight miles away, evening after evening. Our tracts are eagerly taken.

To-night, Aug. 14, we speak upon the subject, “Who Changed the Sabbath?”

N. M. JORDON. A. D. OLSEN.

Ellsworth.

WE have taken down the tent, and now hold meetings in the M. E. church, which has been kindly granted us for that purpose.

The interest here has been good from the first. The citizens have treated us kindly, and a goodly number have professed a determination to keep all the commandments of God. We expect to form a class of at least twenty-five adults in this and the adjoining neighborhood of Beldenville. Our Sabbath-school and Bible-class are in a flourishing condition.

To the Lord be praise for the measure of success he has given his truth in this place.

W. B. HILL. S. FULTON.

Door, Trempealeau, and Racine Counties.

Soon after camp-meeting, I went to Door Co., and held meetings over two Sabbaths with the church at Fish Creek. The blessing of the Lord was with us. Five were baptized, and six united with the church. Three of these were Swedes living near Ephraim, at which place I held four meetings. They received the light on present truth from reading the HAROLD and other publications.

I then went to Trempealeau Co., and labored with the churches at Whitehall and Hixton. All were revived and strengthened. At the first, the truth met strong opposition in these places; but the tide is turning, and many that have been most bitterly opposed to the truth are now favorable.

June 26, I went to Racine, and the next week to Raymond. We were blessed in our labors in these places. These churches have been in a state of discouragement for a time, but light has broken in, and the true friends of the cause feel strengthened and encouraged. If they will heed the admonition of Paul to walk “with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4: 2, 3), prosperity, and the blessing of the Lord will surely be with them.

While at Raymond, I was invited to speak in the Danish Baptist church at Union Grove. I spoke to them four evenings, giving three discourses in the English and one in the Danish language. The word was well received. May the Lord lead them to see the whole truth.

O. A. OLSEN.

Rolling Prairie and Pardeeville.

OUR last report was from Rolling Prairie, July 15. We continued our meetings there till the 31st, laboring to the best of our ability in preaching, and in visiting from house to house. Many acknowledged the truth, but not one publicly confessed it. They were very kind in providing for our temporal wants; but this did not satisfy us when they slighted the warning voice of Jesus. We shall hope our labor was not in vain, and we still remember them in our prayers.

August 1, we came to Pardeeville, Columbia Co., and commenced meeting the 3d. This is a village of about two hundred inhabitants. From the first, our tent has been full nearly every evening. Have had seventeen meetings, and have the subjects of the Judgment, the advent, and the Sabbath well before the people. Aug. 11, we held our first Sabbath meeting; twenty were out; a number bore a good testimony in favor of the truth. The oldest inhabitants say the people were never so interested in the religion of the Bible as now. As we visit the people, they quite generally confess the Sabbath, and their duty to keep it. We have four invitations to labor in adjoining neighborhoods when we close here. The M. E. preacher has spoken against the Sabbath, but made such a failure as to do the truth no harm. The Methodists have a camp-meeting here next week. We shall probably not hold meetings, but shall remain on the ground.

Our tent is pitched near the Presbyterian meeting-house; they receive us kindly, and ring their bell for our meetings, which helps much in getting the people out on time. Nearly every evening the tent is full at the commencement of the service.

Our prayer is for wisdom not to mar the work. Remember us. C. W. OLDS. S. S. SMITH.