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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 24, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 56, No. 1

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WISCONSIN

By James White

THE annual Conference and camp-meeting for the State of Wisconsin is now past, and we are sorry to learn that but little interest was awakened at that meeting for our institutions at Battle Creek. The General Conference Committee had sent one of the ministers of the Michigan State Conference to labor at that camp-meeting, not only as a preacher of the word, but to act in a special sense in behalf of our College and Sanitarium located in the very heart of Michigan. Why our good brethren in Wisconsin did not liberally respond to the appeals made on the Portage camp-ground in behalf of our institutions, the future may unfold. We are certain of this, that when all these matters, which may be a source of trial at the present time, are fully understood, our brethren in Wisconsin of the several nationalities will not be behind those of other States in the work of sustaining our institutions.
But, right here, comes an appeal from the president of the Wisconsin Conference to the chairman of the General Conference Committee that the same Michigan minister who has been appointed to the specific work of soliciting means for our institutions at Battle Creek, should hold a tent-meeting at the capital of the State of Wisconsin. Here comes the rub. A new tent is waiting for said Michigan minister to use in the good State of Michigan, which he does not use from the simple fact that he is torn away from the work in Michigan to labor in the several States in the interest of our institutions. And it does not look consistent that he should take upon his hands so great a work as a tent-meeting at the capital of Wisconsin when he has another work to do of very great importance.
Elder Butler, who is one of the General Conference Committee, has been on the ground and knows the situation of things. If he and said Michigan minister will take the responsibility of robbing destitute and neglected Michigan of labor and bestowing it upon Wisconsin, we shall not object. Michigan, where our institutions are located, taking all things into the account, is the most destitute and suffering field of labor of which we have knowledge. May the Lord of the harvest raise up laborers for the abundant harvest.
J. W.