DAKOTA SABBATH-SCHOOL by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1879

DAKOTA SABBATH-SCHOOL.

By James White

It was our pleasure to witness the Sabbath-school organized under the Dakota tent at the camp-meeting, Sabbath, July 12. Elder Whitney had charge of the school. There were eight classes in English. For want of teachers, there were but two classes in the Danish language. These were very large, as there were many more adults in this branch of the school than in the English branch.

The exercises of the school were opened by singing the appropriate prayer from the Song Anchor, “God bless our Sabbath-school.” Then prayer by the writer, and singing again from the Anchor, “Blessed are they that Do His Commandments.”

After a few remarks by the writer, the happy buzz of English and Danish commenced in good earnest, while the varied notes of a hundred songsters of the morning made our grove temple a delightful scene of pure worship to the Lord of the Sabbath. Then followed that sweet song, “Whiter than Snow.” And after general questions by Bro. Biggs, the person who should answer being called by Elder Whitney, Mrs. W. made appropriate and forcible remarks. Thus closed the Dakota camp-meeting Sabbath-school. J. W.