TO THE BRETHREN IN MINNESOTA.
By Harrison Grant
I LEFT our good camp-meeting at Hutchinson, and hurried home, as my wife's health was poor, and to all appearance she was nearing the grave. We soon decided that she should go to Battle Creek, for treatment at the Health Institute. My wife and youngest daughter have now been at the Institute nine weeks, and during the last few weeks their health has improved, so that we begin to hope. We thank God for the Institute, and the good and kind treatment they have received from the physicians and helpers there. They are treated with the utmost care and kindness by all. I left home July 21, and have been laboring the most of the time with the newly organized churches in the Conference. July 22, we organized a church of eighteen members at Faribault. Aug. 22, baptized eight and organized a church of nine members, at Milford, Iowa. I left a company there that love the truth, and have a desire to walk in the light. Held a meeting at Tenhassen, Aug. 26. Three were baptized. As I passed through Hutchinson I was surprised to learn that over forty had been added to that church since our last camp-meeting, a part of them as the result of that good meeting. I think that nearly one hundred in our Conference have decided to keep all the commandments since our camp-meeting. For the last few weeks I have been laboring on the frontier, in Douglas and Otter Tail counties, where the grasshoppers have nearly destroyed all the small grain. The churches in these counties have all been raised up within the past year. I find them growing in the knowledge of the truth, and of better courage than I expected. I wish to say to the brethren, and especially to the s. s. treasurers of our Conference, that our Conference treasury is empty, and we are in want of means to carry forward the work. Another quarter's pledges are now due. Please do the best you can at this time.