DAKOTA by S. B. Whitney

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 29, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 18

DAKOTA

By S. B. Whitney

Wolf Creek, April 13.— Came to this place the 9th, and found another company of brethren all ready to engage heartily in our work. Eleven signed the covenant and joined the tract society, and clubs of the Instructor, Signs, and Stimme der Wahrheit were taken. Also obtained one subscription for the REVIEW. The outside interest was good. Our meetings were well attended, some coming a distance of five miles. An invitation was extended to me by one of the most prominent citizens, to give a course of lectures in his house. The church takes the name of “Nation,” to coincide with their post-office.

SWAN LAKE, APRIL 19.—On my way to this place I held a meeting at Allentown, where Bro. Biggs has been laboring, and at Parker, the evenings of the 13th and 14th.

Our quarterly meeting just passed has been one of the best meetings we have ever held in this State. The devotional and spiritual interests of the meeting were especially cared for, to the gratification and profit of all. The invitation to seek the Lord more earnestly, given on Sabbath, was responded to by nearly the whole congregation. The Sabbath-school was also very interesting. The tract meeting was especially good, a new district being formed to accommodate the enlarged extent of the work, and the ministers and agents all voting to devote all the profits of their work in the society to its interests. The field was quite well represented. The quarterly report from our Sabbath-schools showed a good increase in the extent of our work in that direction. One, a Dane, was baptized, and united with the Swan Lake church.

S. B. WHITNEY.