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The Vermont Tent

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 16, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 5.

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The Vermont Tent.

By A. C. Bourdeau; D. T. Bourdeau

We pitched our tent in this place, Friday, June 21, while the thermometer stood 102° in the shade. We were quite worn, having traveled much in looking for a suitable place for our camp-meeting, and in searching for a place to hold tent-meetings.
We held our first meetings in the tent, Sunday, June 23. The attendance was fair, there being between three and four hundred persons present. Our congregations through the week are not large, as the village is small, and farmers are behind in their work, the season having been wet and cold. But we have some candid hearers who seem to highly appreciate the truth.
We did not come to this place because we viewed it as the most promising field for the present, but because it connected best with our closing effort last fall, and with our forth-coming camp-meeting. Again, the tent was pitched here fifteen years ago, when only six or seven lectures were given in the place, without leading any to embrace our views; and some of our brethren were very anxious to have a more thorough effort made at this time. We hope that some will embrace the truth, and that our brethren and sisters in Bristol and New Haven will have a watchcare over them. Whatever may be the result of our effort, we design to be thorough. Prejudice is giving way, and we are gaining the confidence of the people.
By request, we delivered a funeral sermon in the Union meeting-house in this place, last Thursday, which left a favorable impression. We meet with the brethren at Bristol, and with those at Huntington and Starkborough, on the Sabbath, and the Lord meets with us. Several in Huntington and Starkborough should move forward in baptism soon, preparatory to effecting an organization. God has greatly blessed these friends. May we not expect that they will respond to his goodness by doing duty when they have a favorable opportunity?
We have presented the second-advent doctrine quite fully, and design giving three discourses on the Sabbath question next Sunday. As we are favored with a tent master, and can more than manage the work here, we have commenced to give a course of lectures at South Starkborough (also called Jerusalem), situated five miles from this place, and four miles from where we closed our effort last fall. If the interest in South Starkborough will warrant, we shall hold tent-meetings in that place over two Sundays, on our way to the camp-meeting. A. C. BOURDEAU, D. T. BOURDEAU. Lincoln, Vt., July 1, 1872.