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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1872

An Outside View.

The following from the Romeo Observer, respecting the tent-meeting in Almont, Mich., shows how the meetings are regarded from an outside standpoint:—

THE ADVENTISTS AT ALMONT.

Almont, July 11, 1872.

The Seventh-day Adventists came to this place about four weeks since with a sixty-foot tent, in which meetings have been held each evening and in the day-time of Sundays. Great interest has been manifested on the part of many citizens of the place and the surrounding country. The congregation at times has not fallen much short of five hundred, the average week-day evening attendance being about one hundred and fifty.

Opinion is divided as to the truthfulness of the positions taken. The whole town is stirred, and many are falling in with the ideas presented. Last Sunday, Rev. J. T. Hankinson, pastor of the M. E. Church, preached an opposition discourse, claiming that the first day of the week is the original Adamic Sabbath. The house was nearly filled with attentive hearers. In the afternoon of the same day a candid review of his discourse was given by Eld. D. H. Lamson, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens.

The final result of the meetings cannot be determined, though the probabilities are that a church will be established here. —CITIZEN.

[From a second correspondence, dated the 15, we learn that the meetings are to continue until the 22d. The correspondent says, “The meetings are still increasing in interest, there being occasional appointments for prayer and conference before the evening services, in which many testimonies are given in favor of God and his truth, quite a number expressing their sympathy for the doctrines advocated.”—EDS.]