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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 23, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 51

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MEETINGS IN DAKOTA.

By A. D. Olsen

On our return from the General Conference, we appointed a worker’s meeting to be held at Vilas, Dec. 6-9. It was not intended that this should take the place of the general meeting to be held at Bridgewater in January, so a general notice was not given. Still the attendance was good, and the different churches were nearly all represented. The services were held in the hall of our new depository, and as far as we know, all were well pleased with the new building. Sabbath was appointed as a day of fasting and special seeking the Lord for his blessing to rest upon his work. His Spirit came very near, and its work was apparent in the humble confessions made, and the desires expressed for entire consecration to the work of God. Some whom we had feared were lost to the cause returned with confessions of past wrongs, and pledged themselves to live for the Lord in the future. Others devoted themselves and their property to the work of carrying the last message, and we all felt to thank God and take courage. Our early morning meetings at six o’clock were seasons of special blessing, and many were heard to say that the meeting as a whole was the best they ever attended. All entered heartily into the plan of canvassing for the Signs and “Sunshine,” and we hope to see much done in this way in getting the truth before the people the present year.
Our closing service was one of praise and thanksgiving for what God had wrought during the meeting, and we separated to enter more heartily and earnestly into the work than ever before.
While we visited the churches at Badus and Madison we were glad to find in them a mind to work; and as the workers go forth to labor, we hope and pray for God’s blessing on our efforts, and that the work may spread till the truth shall reach all the honest ones on these broad prairies, and a people shall be prepared to stand in the coming conflict, and triumph with God’s people at last. A. D. OLSEN.