OUR MEETINGS IN MAINE by John H. Waggoner

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 9, 1869

OUR MEETINGS IN MAINE.

By John H. Waggoner

The prospects for meetings in this section at present, are far from encouraging. The winter has been an unusual one; though it has been sometimes extremely cold, most of the time it has been mild, and even warm, with scarcely any snow near the sea coast. Sickness prevails very extensively. Bro. Atwood writes me from Skowhegan, that it was never before known so sickly there. Around here, schools are closing for want of scholars. Not very much dangerous sickness however, but it acts like an epidemic. For about two weeks past, my health has been very poor. I have not been fit to labor, though I have kept active most of the time. A general prostration, with a continued, and almost overpowering, sense of fatigue; but my greatest trouble is in my head, which pains me almost constantly, even depriving me of sleep nights. Added to this, Bro. Canright's family have been sick ever since he left home, and they are now worse, and he fears he shall be obliged to return home.

We have mostly good reports from the ministers in their various fields, and I am rejoiced to hear that they are now disposed to take hold and to hold on. God bless them in their efforts.

J. H. WAGGONER.

Richmond, Jan. 31, 1869.