TYLSTRUP, DENMARK by John G. Matteson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1878

TYLSTRUP, DENMARK.

By John G. Matteson

The meetings in Tylstrup are progressing. We have not had as large audiences as in Alstrup. Our place of meeting can seat sixty or seventy persons. At the first meeting, when I spoke on the prophecies, there were twice as many in attendance, but since that occasion there have been just enough to fill the room. I shall soon be through with the prophecies, and will after that speak on the law and the Sabbath. The word spoken has been blessed to the good of some. Many have a desire to search the holy Scriptures. Some are concerned for the salvation of their souls, and turn away from their idols to serve the true and living God and to await the coming of Christ from Heaven. Strong drink and tobacco have been dismissed in several places. The blessing of the Lord has followed our efforts thus far.

Sabbath and Sunday I was at Alstrup. Our prayer-meetings on the Sabbath are generally attended by twenty or thirty persons, but there are yet only a few who have courage to take part in them. Sabbath afternoon there were about one hundred and thirty and Sunday evening about two hundred attentive hearers present in the meeting-house. There are many who are convinced, but it is difficult for them to tear themselves away and begin to serve the Lord. They seem, however, to have a desire to hear. We hope and pray that many others in Alstrup and Saltum may have grace to turn away from their former habits and prepare to meet the Lord in peace.

I write these two days, and to-morrow I go again to Tylstrup to continue my labors there. My wife labors for the mission in Alstrup and aids in the meetings when I am away. We receive good news from our children, for which we are very thankful to God, and to the friends who are taking care of them.

JOHN G. MATTESON.

Feb. 25, 1878.