p. 62 | TENT-MEETING IN CHELSEA, MASS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 17, 1869

TENT-MEETING IN CHELSEA, MASS.

By M. E. Cornell; P. C. Rodman

Our tent is located on a pleasant, retired spot, on Shurtleff St., near the M. E. church. We have held thirty-eight meetings in the tent, and the interest is still good. Last evening there was a larger audience than before. Books are taken freely, and there appears to be a healthy interest. We have many transient hearers, who become interested, and take books to their homes in different States and the Provinces. About one hundred voted for the truth on the Sabbath question, and about thirty or more expressed a decision to keep it. Not a hand was raised for Sunday.

Many of the Advent people hear us candidly, and some are convinced that we have the truth. Some of the Spiritualists are terribly shaken, and one publicly confessed himself convinced that the soul is not immortal by nature. He has been an inspirational speaker.

We have several regular hearers from Boston, proper, and East Boston, Charlestown, and occasionally some from Dorchester, Medford, Cambridgeport, and other places in this vicinity. We are invited to pitch in East Boston, and South End, but are yet undecided where to hold the next course of meetings.

We have four standing challenges for public discussion; one from a collegiate professor in Boston, but we have not as yet given any encouragement that we would accept any of them. We watch for duty.

We know that our success here depends very much upon our humble trust in the God of truth. We try to live near to God, and trust we shall have the prayers of his people.

We remain here yet another week or more, and if the Lord will, we hope that our long-expected help will come, and that a new impetus will be given to the work here. M. E. CORNELL, P. C. RODMAN. Boston, Aug. 9.