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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · November 27, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 22

MINNESOTA

Dundas, Rice Co.—Yesterday, Nov. 15, our little church held a profitable social meeting, in which each bore a cheering testimony. One united with us by baptism, the ordinance being administered on Sunday, the 16th, by Bro. McCrady, after he had spoken briefly on the subject. May the Lord add his blessing to the efforts of our brethren in trying to bring their fellow-men into the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. A. A. CLYDE, Church Clerk.

Oronoco and Greenwood Prairie, Nov. 19.

—A Wesleyan Methodist minister of Wasioja, commenced a series of five opposition discourses at Oronoco, Sunday, Nov. 2. His effort was directed mainly against the Sabbath and the visions. He took the no-law position, but his strength, if he had any, lay in misrepresentation. He would represent S. D. Adventists as holding some absurd position, and then ridicule it. I attended each evening, and took notes. At the close of his lecture, I announced a review to begin immediately. He desired me to postpone it several days, as he wished to attend. I did so, but when I began my review he failed to appear, much to the surprise of the people.

Although the weather was very unfavorable, yet the people turned out well to hear the review, and the interest deepened to the close. The Lord gave excellent liberty, and our cause stands on a firmer basis in Oronoco than ever before. One more has taken a stand with us, and several persons of real moral worth are deeply interested.

I met with the church at Greenwood Prairie, Sabbath, Nov. 15. At the close of a discourse on baptism, three of the young people, children of Sabbath-keepers, presented themselves for baptism, also a sister who desired rebaptism. May the Lord be with and bless these young followers of the Master. N. BATTIN.