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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

DAKOTA

Allentown, Turner Co.—Since my last report, I have canvassed the Sabbath question quite fully. One more has taken a decided stand. He is a man of influence, being a judge of the probate court, also deacon of the Presbyterian church. I think he will be a help to the cause of truth. Several others are investigating, for whom we are very hopeful. Pray for me, that God may direct. D. T. Biggs.

Flandreau and Madison.—Came to Flandreau Feb. 26, and found a few Sabbath-keepers ready to engage heartily in the work. Have held five meetings with them; but the weather has been so severely cold and stormy for the most part that we could not judge much of the outside interest, though there was a fair attendance toward the last, as the weather improved. Five joined the tract society, and all these have adopted the tithing system and are paying the one-third. A family Sabbath-school was organized, and three joined the H. and T. Association as full members on the teetotal pledge. The others had done so before.

Came to Madison March 3, and found quite a large company of Sabbath-keepers, mostly from Vermont, who have come in here to locate claims for themselves and families on the prairies. Have had meetings every day since I came, and the brethren seem to have a mind to work. On the Sabbath a Sabbath-school was organized with forty-five members. After public service, an opportunity was given for those who desired to seek the Lord more earnestly to come forward, when almost the whole congregation moved. It was a powerful time, and several who were entirely backslidden and had given up the Sabbath, and some who had never kept it before, decided then and there to obey the whole truth, and be Christians. Shall remain with them another week, to perfect the organization of the church and tract society as far as practicable. S. B. Whitney.