p. 78 | Maine Mission Tent

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1874

Maine Mission Tent.

By J. B. Goodrich; W. H. Blaisdell

We erected our tent in East Dover, June 30, and closed our labors there for the present, last Sunday, Aug. 9. This we found to be a hard field of labor. We have never before labored in a place where infidelity and skepticism prevailed to such an alarming extent as there. Fanaticism in its worst forms prevailed in that region in former days. But we found a few who had ears to hear, and hearts to obey, the truth. As the result of the meetings, twenty in that locality (three of whom were keeping the Sabbath when we went there), signed the covenant to keep all God's commandments, and unite in sustaining regular Sabbath meetings and a Sabbath-school.

A brother over eighty years of age, who was interested in the first message, and now resides in Missouri, being on a visit among friends in the vicinity of our meetings, attended some of them. On hearing an explanation of the disappointment in 1844, he readily embraced the Sabbath of the Lord. May he enjoy much of God's blessing as he returns a commandment-keeper to his home in Missouri.

Our tent is now erected in Cambridge village. Brethren, pray for us.

J. B. GOODRICH, W. H. BLAISDELL. Cambridge, Me., Aug. 12, 1874,