E. B. LANE by E. B. Lane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 24, 1874

E. B. LANE

By E. B. Lane

Ohio.

SINCE my last report, I have been unable to continue labor only a portion of the time on account of sickness. Have had a severe attack of diphtheria. Regular appointments, however, have been filled by Bro. A. A. Hutchins and Mrs. Lane.

Several more have taken a stand with us. Receiving urgent invitations from Bowling Green village, two and one-half miles from the place where we had been laboring, we concluded that nearly all to whom we had been preaching would attend there, so our brethren procured a large hall fifty feet square, and Feb. 3, we began a course of lectures. We were surprised and gratified to see nearly three hundred in attendance at our first appointment. There has since been an increase so they now number between three and four hundred, and the interest seems to be permanent.

Last Sunday night, although there were two other meetings in the place, the hall was crowded. It was estimated by a man who sold tickets for an entertainment on another occasion, that there were six hundred present at the meeting and that the room was never before so well filled.

The people gave the best of attention, and, by means of the Tract Society, are eagerly reading many of our works. By the efforts of this society, hundreds of pages are being read that would not be were it not for it. God bless the Tract Societies everywhere.

Bro. A. A. Hutchins is holding meetings in different school-houses in the vicinity of Bowling Green for the purpose of interesting the people and getting them to attend the meetings at the above place. We pray for much good as the result of these efforts.

E. B. LANE

Bowling Green, Feb. 11, 1874.