St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
ADVENTISTS' SABBATH.
The Whole Camp Engages in the Exer-
oises of Sunday School in the
Great Tent.
An Interesting Interview With Elder s.
N. Haskell, Who Relates the Ad.
ventists History.
Their Publishing Work and Educa.
tional Institutions Camp Meet
ings as an Agency.

Yesterday was the Sabbath with the
Seventh-Day Adventists at Lake Harriet,
and great difference was seen between
this and other days. The people were astir
as early in the morning, but everything was
very quiet. No loud talking nor unneces-
sary noise was made, and everybody seemed
TO feel the sacredness of the day. The
morning exercises in the large tent were
better attended than usual. The Advent
lists observe their Sabbath very strictly;
they do no business, and do not believe in
visiting or doing their own pleasure on that
day. 1t is noticed that they co mmence the
Sabbath at shutdown Friday evening, and
close it at shutdown ON Saturday evening.
They say that the custom of commencing
the day at midnight is not of divine origin.
and that the Bible upholds them in what
they do. Very few were seen
moving about the grounds throughout the
whole day, all attending and taking interest
in the services. Alto am. the whole camp
engaged in the exercises of the Sabbath
school. The children were taken to a
separate tent, and the older ones gathered
in the great tabernacle; the Scandinavians,
Germans and English all occupying differ
ent parts of the same tent. Great interest
was manifested in the proceedings. Elder
ID. nj. Canright reviewed the school at the
close of the class exercises, and this was
followed by some general remarks by some
of the speakers. The Sabbath school was
closely followed by preaching service
Elder S. n. Haskell addressed the people,
and took as a basis for his remarks the
words found in Matthew xix, 1919.
AS the Seventh Day Adventists are now
holding large state camp-meeting in this
city. and as they are becoming to be
prominent denomination throughout the
country few facts in regard to this people
will be of interest to our readers. A GLOBE
reporter obtained an interview with Elder
S. N. Haskell, a leading man in the de-
nomination, Elder Haskell is upwards of
| so years old, being evidently man of much
experience, good information and very
positive decided turn of mind. Our re-
porter found him very genial, and ready to
communicate with regard to the affairs of
his people.
THE AGE AND NUMBERS.
ELDER Haskell said our reporter, show
old is your denominations
''Well,' said the elder, 1--WE are compare
lively young people. We date our rise
from about 1S45, from the great Advent
movement of that period. Elder Joseph
u,
embraced and began 10 promulgate these
doctrines in New England about this tiTne.''
''How many do your people number at the
present time?''
probably upwards Of 30000.''
"Where are you principally located?'
swell, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota are
our strongest conferences, but we are scat
tered everywhere. We have twenty-eight
| state conferences in the United States, and
these embrace nearly every state and terri
| tory in the Union. We have very strong
| hold on the Pacific coast, and lately are hav-
| ing fine success in the Southern states. We
| do not COLOMBO anywhere. but endeavor to
| reach every town in the country
'Have you churches outside Of this coun-
try?"
"Oh, yes,' said the elder, tive have flourish
! ing missions in England, Norway, Denmark,
| Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland and
! other European countries, in Australia and
| the Sandwich islands; besides having con-
verts in every quarter of the globe. We
| have churches in the far northern regions,
where the sun scarcely sets in summer. We
| have them across the equator and in the
! southern hemisphere
| Are your people thriviug?"
1 1--WE think so, said Mr.. Butler, with much
| animation, 1--WE are making more rapid
progress than young determinations generally
| do; last year our people raised for the vari-
| GUS branches of the cause probably not less
than 100000, which is used with great
! economy in every direction; and this, you
| see, would be large amount for so small a
number of people,.
| ''How is your work carried forward? the
| same as other denominatiOns?'
| Hardly. We labor very much as the early
| Methodists did, one hundred years ago. We
are emphatically missionary people. We
| believe that the time has come for the world
| to be warned concerning the second coming
! OF Christ, which is near at hand. We feel
| people, and to this we bend all our energies.
| We have no settled pastors. AS soon as a
| church is raised up, and thoroughly drilled,
it is left to care for itself, while the minister
| pushes on to raise up new churches; and the
| church send him means with which to do it.
| In the winter the ministers go out
| into churches, halls, school houses,
and anywhere they can find an
| opening. In the summer we largely use
| tents. pitching them in the cities and Wiz
| lagos and country places, where we hold
| meetings every night for several weeks in a
| place. This year we shall probably run 100
| tents in this way. Lately we are establishing
| training missions in our large cities. Here,
| from dozen to thirty intelligent men and
women are put under the instruction of a
| competent missionary worker. After few
| months of schooling, they are Their sent out
| to start new missions, or to conduct the work
| alone. We have already sent many of our
best ministers to other quarters of the globe,
who have raised up laborers in most of the
| leading languages of the earth.
| WOMEN AS GOSPEL LABORERS.
We have found that good. pious, devoted
women can be about as useful i'll the work OF
the gospel as the men; and hence we use
large numbers of these in our missions. and
in the various branches of the work. They
leave their homes, and go everywhere. devot-
ing their entire time to the cause. We also
find our camp-meetingS Il powerful agent in
| reaching the great public. This year we
shall hold about fifty of them. These will be
located in the large cities, where we can
| reach the masses.
Have you any other way of spreading your
doctrtIes?''