Dakota by S. B. Whitney

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

Dakota.

By S. B. Whitney

In company with brother John Richards, who speaks the German language, I visited the Russians, with whom I had long desired to form an acquaintance. We found a very interesting company of about thirty-five Sabbath-keepers. Their experience in the old country has been such as to make them somewhat distrustful of strangers, but by the blessing of God we were enabled to overcome their prejudices in a remarkable degree, and, as these yielded, the melting Spirit of the Lord came into our midst, inditing earnest prayer, and causing our hearts to run together, until we wept like children. Altogether, our visit to them was a success, and I am satisfied that there is an excellent field for a competent, judicious laborer, and one that should be improved.

S. B. Whitney.

Howard, Dakota, May 5.