WISCONSIN T. AND M. INSTITUTE.
By B. L. Whitney
THIS Institute, which was held at Oakland, Wis., and closed on the evening of March 23, after a session of just one week, was both interesting and profitable. The attendance was larger than was anticipated, the class numbering between sixty and seventy, and an excellent interest was manifested in all the meetings. All the Wisconsin ministers except one were present, and a lively interest was manifested in our early ministers’ meeting, which was held each morning. The ministers of this Conference are fully in sympathy with the recommendations of the late General Conference respecting the relation of the minister to the tract society, and have taken hold in earnest to carry them out. Nearly $500 worth of books were taken from this meeting by the ministers, which will be sold in the interest of the society; and their labors between this time and camp-meeting will be in behalf of the society, in connection with their labors among the churches. Nearly $300 was pledged to the reserve fund, by those present, and over $100 to the general fund. All the brethren went from this meeting determined to take hold of this work anew, and to labor to carry out the instruction received. An active interest will be taken to secure a general attendance at the Institute which it is proposed to hold in the State the coming fall. Medford, Minn., March 26.