p. 140 | ILLINOIS by J. F. Hanson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 3, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 9

ILLINOIS

By J. F. Hanson

CHICAGO.—Five weeks have now passed since we commenced meetings here. The Free Lutheran Conference, embracing the four leading societies in the Lutheran denomination, has now been in session

five weeks. Some one hundred and ninety delegates and ministers have assembled to unite the four bodies in one. These meetings draw large congregations, and have a tendency to decrease the number in attendance at our meetings, although we seem to have the best of interest at this time. The sleet and snow have prevented some from being in regularly at our meetings, who we know would have been had the weather been more agreeable. Although we have been hindered, we have had good congregations except one or two evenings. Those who have attended are well tested in regard to doctrines we hold, concerning the second advent of Christ, the law of God, and the Sabbath and Sunday questions. Last Thursday evening nearly the whole house voted in favor of the seventh-day Sabbath and not one in favor of Sunday. Many are convinced that we have the truth, and that it is being lived out by those who receive eternal life at last, but for many the way is too straight and too narrow, and they draw back; “but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” Six or seven have commenced to keep the Sabbath, and we hope for others as the fruit of our labor. We expect to continue our meetings two or three weeks longer. 15. J. F. Hanson.