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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 9.

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S. SALTUM, DENMARK.

By John G. Matteson

We have held meetings this week in S. Saltum, Alstrup, Bunken, and N. Saltum—all neighboring cities. We have held thirty-seven meetings in all since we came to this vicinity, and from six to seven hundred people have heard about the present truth. Most of them receive it with joy and are thankful for it. Many are awakened to a knowledge of their sins, and are concerned in regard to their salvation; but it takes time for them to overcome their old habits, and begin to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.
Last Sunday the priest in Alstrup church spoke against false prophets before an audience of six; while our audiences during the week have numbered from one hundred to one hundred and fifty. The priest in Saltum also warned his people against attending meetings outside of the church; but Sunday afternoon about three hundred persons listened intently to our lecture on the life and death question. This lecture will be printed in the ADVENT TIDENDE. It was an answer to some points brought up against us by two school-teachers on behalf of the church. They had invited me to answer, but neither of them were present when the answer came. If the priest and the school-teachers had thought that they could prove from the word of God that our lectures or a part of them were not in harmony with the Scriptures, then they certainly would have done their duty, and would have come to enlighten the people in regard to this fact. The majority of our hearers would then, of course, stay away from our meetings. But if we do not teach the people anything but what clearly harmonizes with the Bible, nor anything but what they very much need to learn and lay to heart, then it is better that these teachers stay away, inasmuch as they only try to hinder the work of God.
We have received four subscribers to the TIDENDE, and sold some tracts. The Lord mercifully strengthens us; and we will by his help continue to labor on in hope.
JOHN G. MATTESON.
July 30, 1877.