News from the East

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1875

News from the East.

Bro. J. MATTESON states that since his last report he has visited a settlement of 200 Norwegian Quakers, and spent some time with them distributing tracts and visiting families. He also stopped one week among the Danes in Marshalltown, where some interest had been awakened, and where he obtained nine subscribers for the Tidende, and sold several dollars' worth of tracts. He then returned to Grundy Co., where he baptized three, and organized a church of twenty-two members. Bro. A. Peterson was ordained elder, and Frederick Olsen was elected church clerk.

Of labor in Eastern Michigan Bro. R. J. Lawrence says:—

"From May 19 to 25, I was with the church in Saranac. Held six meetings, and baptized four. Bro. Sisley was here and spoke twice.

"From May 27 to June 7, I was at Edenville. Held fifteen meetings, and baptized four. Ten covenanted to sustain meetings until some minister can meet with them again."

From Bro. J. B. Frisbie's report of labor in Michigan we take the following:—

"About five weeks ago, I commenced lecturing five or six miles from Big Rapids, in a neighborhood of farmers, in a pleasant, new school-house. After being there until the fourth Sabbath, eighteen, as near as I can learn, commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. Two were already observers of the Sabbath.

"Quite a number of others acknowledged the claims of the seventh day, but want a little more time to reflect upon it. I think they will soon decide in favor of the truth.

Bro. Lawrence has written for me to join him with the tent this week. I have written for him to do the best he can for a few days alone. I think I had better follow up the interest at Big Rapids some longer. I intend to be with them to-morrow in their second Sabbath meeting. I have not seen such an interest manifested in any place for many years. It is, in some respects, such a place as Wright, Ottawa Co. was when Bro. Edgar and myself were there eighteen years ago, when over one hundred were baptized, the most of whom are holding on to-day. May God bless them."

From the report of the Vigilant Missionary Society of South Lancaster, Mass., we take the following interesting paragraph:—

"After a letter was read from Bro. Haskell suggesting certain plans of operation, which were thankfully received and unanimously adopted, the secretary read interesting letters from China, Russia, and England—one of special interest from a brother in London, England, who is devoted to the distribution of publications in that city. At a meeting, where there were 5,000 people, many of them representative men, which met at Exeter Hall to see what steps could be taken to better establish first-day observance, over 5,000 pages of our publications were distributed to the multitude there assembled."

Thus we see that although they were assembled for the purpose of more firmly establishing error, it afforded an excellent opportunity to scatter seeds of truth, some of which, we trust, will spring up and bear fruit unto eternal life.