The Cause in Wisconsin.
By T. M. Steward
BRO. WHITE: We have just closed a Quarterly Meeting with the church in this place. Deep solemnity pervaded our entire meeting, while we rehearsed the requirements of the gospel and the evidences of our present position. A deep interest was manifest and increased to the close. Some who had been on the back ground moved forward and renewed their covenant with God. On first-day, A. M., we took the parable of the ten virgins to show more clearly our present198position and duty while we are waiting for the Bridegroom to return from the wedding. After which we repaired to the water, where four were buried with Christ by baptism, and arose to walk in newness of life. Among them was our brother who has been putting it off from time to time, but has at last taken up his cross, to the satisfaction and joy of the church and his family. May the Lord help him with the rest to go on unto perfection. In the afternoon we preached from Jer. xxxi, 15, 16, 17, to the consolation of the afflicted. Our business meeting in the morning of first-day was all harmonious and quiet, though we had considerable business to attend to. The brethren at this meeting helped me on my way after a godly sort. May the Lord abundantly reward them for their care for his servant. The cause is onward in Wisconsin. I cannot fill one-fourth of the calls for labor. I think the church need help to regulate them and get order more perfectly established throughout the State. The third angel's message is onward. May the Lord hasten it, is my prayer. Hundred-Mile Grove, May 11, 1863.