p. 62 | Tent Meeting at Dryden, Mich

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1874

Tent Meeting at Dryden, Mich.

By D. H. Lamson; J. O. Corliss

DRYDEN is a small village in Lapeer County. At this place we pitched our tent June 10, holding the first meeting the evening of the following day. Circumstances have been favorable from that time until the present. Have failed to have meeting but one evening, on the account of bad weather, for the six weeks that the meetings have continued. The interest is still unabated. The numbers that have attended have reached fully five hundred at times, and the attendance has been good at all times, though in the midst now of haying and harvest. There are but one or two families in the place that have not been to the tent, almost all prejudice both in town and country having given way. It is safe to say that three-fourths of all that come assent to the truths that have been spoken.

Have held in all to date fifty-four meetings, and sold about thirty dollars' worth of books. On the last two Sabbaths, three meetings were held each day, on the last of which not less than thirty made an open profession of faith in the truths presented, the Sabbath and all. We find by visiting many more who intend to move out in this work. Nearly all say that this place was never so stirred before. We are now doing what we can to build up the work, getting subscribers for the papers, &c. God has blessed, for which we praise his name. We expect to strike our tent on Monday next.

D. H. LAMSON, J. O. CORLISS. July 22, 1874.