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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 42.

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Texas

By H. B. French

SANGER.—Soon after our camp meeting at Handley, Tex., I came to Sanger, a village of seven or eight hundred inhabitants. After a few days’ work, the tent was pitched in a central part of the village, and meetings were begun. The attendance was about one hundred and fifty the first night, and in a few nights it increased to about four hundred. During the four weeks’ service the average attendance was about two hundred.
As usual, when the test came, there was a falling away of numbers, but the interest has deepened with the truly interested ones. It was when these began to take their stand for truth that opposition came. Before this, bankers, doctors, preachers, merchants, and farmers seemed equally interested. The opposition, as usual, came from the ministers. Seeing their flocks torn and scattered, they went to work in earnest. We asked the Lord to bring to naught the work of these pastors if they would not yield to the message; and we did not wait long to see our prayers answered. Their argument seemed only to confirm what we had already presented. As the result of the work, we hope to see a good, strong church built up.
Calls from other points have been made for service. The whole country seems to be agitated over the work done at this place.
A few days ago, at a place ten miles away, which is the county seat of this county, a Catholic priest secured the courthouse, in which to hold a series of meetings. During his discourses he presented the infallibility of the Catholic Church, and laid claim to the Sunday as the offspring of the church he represented, saying, at the same time, that there is no authority in the Bible for Sunday keeping.
Will not the honest in the different denominations, in view of the situation and their inability to meet it, be glad to welcome those who teach the true gospel? I am convinced that the way is opening up for the message to go very soon with a loud cry. H. B. FRENCH.