MINNESOTA

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1878

Alexandria, Sept. 4.

WE have given fourteen discourses here. Have had the best of order and attention in our congregations, which have ranged from fifty to two hundred. Those who attend give evidence of being deeply interested in the subjects presented. They accept reading matter readily, and we have sold some tracts and pamphlets. Some small contributions have been made toward our expenses. We have had some invitations to visit. We have not yet reached the testing truths, but shall do so soon.

Bro. Ellis is now with us, assisting in the work. We can see no reason as yet why some honest souls may not accept the truth. We need wisdom, and pray for it, that the truth may prosper in our hands.

D. P. CURTIS. N. HATTIN.

Champlin, Sept. 2.

WE commenced meetings here Aug. 30. Have given five discourses to audiences ranging from forty to sixty. There seems to be more prejudice in the minds of the people than we have found anywhere else; but the interest is increasing, and friends are being raised up to bid us Godspeed and encourage us in the good work.

This is an important field. Just across the Mississippi lies Anoka, a town of more than three thousand inhabitants, with good American settlements in every direction in which the third angel’s message has never been proclaimed. We never felt the burden of the work as we feel it now, and we desire the special, earnest prayers of our brethren that the truth may win many in this section.

W. B. HILL. J. W. MOORE.