WISCONSIN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 25, 1877

Mount Hope and Hurricane Grove.

Our meetings at Mount Hope and Hurricane Grove were profitable to the church, but the outside attendance was small. Considerable interest was manifested in the missionary work. But few of the brethren and sisters paid all their S. B. dues and the one-third for the missionary treasury.

We recommend all not to wait till the next quarterly meeting to pay the rest of their dues, but, if possible, to pay the next quarter in advance, because the money is now needed to carry forward the work of the Lord. Let us all remember that the Lord and his cause should be first. “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.” Read Titus 3:8. “Bring ye all the tithes,” &c. Come, dear brethren and sisters of Wisconsin, let us not wait till the end of the next quarter, but to-day let us bring the first-fruits unto the Lord.

Wisconsin has 1,135 members in church fellowship, and probably not one-half of them belong to the Tract and Missionary Society. We recommend our missionary workers everywhere to urge all who have a desire to be laborers together with God to join the society, and work.

Come, dear brethren and sisters, let us arise and take hold of this work as we never have before, that Jesus may say to us, “Well done, good and faithful servants.”

I. SANBORN.

Pardeeville, Oct. 17.

AFTER being here over six weeks and holding fifty meetings, thirty signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

The influence of this meeting extended to other neighborhoods, and calls were made for meetings. Bro. Smith went to one school-house five miles north of Pardeeville, and I to another three miles southwest, where we gave short courses of lectures. Bro. Smith reports that ten or twelve have decided to obey the message where he is holding meetings, and I trust a few will decide for God in this place, making over forty in the vicinity of Pardeeville. Seven subscribed for the REVIEW and some for the REFORMER. They sustain weekly prayer and Sabbath meetings.

One case at the last place where I held meetings is of special interest, that of father Blaisdell, who is eighty years of age. He embraced the advent faith under the labors of Wm. Miller, but had lost sight of the advent movement, and had connected himself with the M. E. church. He heard of our meetings, and sent an invitation for us to visit him. He seemed to rejoice in the hope of a soon-coming Saviour, yet he knew nothing of the third message. Bro. B. had used tobacco for sixty years; but he has embraced the Sabbath and thrown away his tobacco, and he told me the Lord had given him a complete victory, and taken the appetite for it all away. What excuse can younger people have for indulging in the filthy habit? Oh! flee to Jesus and be made clean, before the decree goes forth, “He that is filthy, let him be filthy still.”

Bro. Smith will stay in this place a few weeks.

C. W. OLDS.