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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1873

D. T. BOURDEAU

By D. T. Bourdeau

From the Vermont Tent.

WE have met much prejudice and opposition in this place, from the first. Religionists have labored hard to crowd us out of this place, and have been very busy in circulating false reports to keep the people away from our meetings. Yet some will come out to hear, and intend to hear us through. We have given fifteen discourses, and are in the midst of the Sabbath question. From the eagerness with which “Which Day do you Keep? and Why?” “Elihu on the Sabbath,” and “Seven Reasons for Sunday Keeping Examined,” were taken last evening, we should judge that several were anxious to know the truth about the Sabbath.

This is a thriving railroad town, and the Methodists and Universalists are in a thriving condition, from a popular stand-point. But we regarded this as a central point, and a good point at which to start the work. When we labor farther back in the country, we shall not be met with the question, Why don't you go where the people know something? We shall probably remain in this town until camp-meeting.

When I see the fields opening before us, and see so many influential brethren, who might be true missionaries, kept away from the work by worldly interests, and contenting themselves with being pleasantly situated near relatives, or in connection with good brethren, while souls are perishing for want of knowledge, my soul is filled with sadness and anguish. When will influential brethren take their position in the work, so that sufficient help may be had, and a proper connection be made in labors in new fields, that lives may not be endangered by some being obliged to labor beyond their strength, as they have done in the past, and are in danger of doing in the future. Pray for us.

D. T. BOURDEAU

West Burke, Vt., June 16, 1873.