p. 78 | Glencoe, Minn by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1872

Glencoe, Minn.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

WE are having some little encouragement here, though not much. Our congregation (now in the midst of harvest) has been about forty on an average. Sunday night, about two hundred. Last night we took a vote on the Sabbath question. About seventy-five voted in favor of the seventh day; but not one for first-day. Then six voted to keep the Sabbath. We have some hopes of enough more to make a company of ten or a dozen. There are quite a number who are friendly to us. We introduced the Reformer one evening, and obtained thirteen subscribers for it. Have sold a few books.

As usual, the Methodist minister boasts great things as to what he can do, and will do when we are gone. But he is very unpopular, and hence amounts to but little.

For the benefit of those who are running leaky tents, we would say, that a tent will shed rain much better wrong side out than it will right side out. That is, put the rope out. This I have proved several times. Our Minnesota tent is only 8oz. ducking, and when put up right side out, leaks like a sieve. We took it down and put it up with the ropes out, and though we have had heavy, driving rains upon it, it does not leak at all.

Next week we go to Hutchinson, sixteen miles north-west, a little village of about three hundred inhabitants.

Aug. 5. D. M. CANRIGHT.