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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 20, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 10

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TENT MEETING IN MAINE.

By Dudley Marvin Canright; J. B. Goodrich

We have pitched the tent in this place, and have had meetings two days. It is not an entirely new place, as there are about twenty Sabbath keepers here now, the most of whom however have come into the truth within a short time. They needed much labor to get them in order and into all parts of the truth. As it is back in the country and we had only a small school-house in which to hold meetings, and as there were some interested among those without to hear, we concluded that the best way was to pitch the tent and make thorough work of it. We have done it more for the benefit of the church than we have expecting to reach others; but the interest appears to be better than we expected.
Our congregation has numbered about three hundred, who give good attention to the word spoken. How long we shall stay here we cannot tell; but we hope to see a good work done here, in the name of the Lord before we leave.
The other churches in the State will have to be satisfied at present with the labor which they have had, as every one has had more or less this summer. It seems to me that this is all that they could reasonably ask. We cannot spend all our time in visiting the churches. One or two are all that can be spared for them; the rest of us must be breaking new fields and trying to extend the work. Here there is an open field and a good interest to hear. Manifestly God is at work in this section, and we cannot feel it duty to leave and go where there is no particular interest. More than two hundred persons have embraced the Sabbath in the last two years, within a few miles of this place, and still the interest is good, and the work moves on. We think therefore that this is a plain indication that this is the place of labor at present and we think it is best to do our work thoroughly wherever we do commence; so of course it takes us much longer than it would if we hurried over the ground and ran from place to place.
We hope to have a State Conference organized here soon, and we desire all to be prepared for it. Our Monthly Meeting comes Sabbath and first-day, August 24 and 25. It will be here in the tent, and we expect to see the largest gathering we have yet had in Maine. Brethren pray for us. D. M. CANRIGHT. J. B. GOODRICH.