TENT MEETING AT DELHI, MICH by John Norton Loughborough; Merritt E. Cornell

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N.Y. · Jul 11, 1854

TENT MEETING AT DELHI, MICH.

By John Norton Loughborough; Merritt E. Cornell

OUR Meeting in this place, although commenced under unfavorable circumstances, closed leaving a good interest in the minds of a portion of that community. Quite a number came from the Capital, six miles from the place of Meeting. On First-day the Tent was well filled, mostly with the intelligent portion of the inhabitants, who gave strict heed to the word spoken, and when an opportunity was given for those who wished to understand more fully the reasons of our faith, to purchase books, our stand was immediately surrounded, and we sold in this place $12.00 worth of books.

We feel confident that many are brought under the sound of the present message by the curiosity they have to attend a Tent-Meeting, who would know nothing of our position were it presented in the usual way in a district school-house. Very many can attribute their conversion to the truth to curiosity which led them to attend Sabbath-keepers’ Meetings. We hope and trust with God’s blessing that many more will date their convictions of the truth to the time when they gratified their curiosity by attending Meetings in a Tent.

The way is opening before us. We shall not have time to visit all the places now in contemplation before cold weather. Therefore we have concluded to visit only those places, where the most good can be done in the shortest time. The cause is one, and our

anxiety is to get our position before the people in the shortest possible time.

The day of trouble is near. What is done for perishing souls must be done speedily! We need the prayers of the saints. Pray for us, brethren, that we may be so guided that an effectual blow may be struck for the cause in Michigan.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. M. E. CORNELL.

Tyrone, July 29th, 1854.