p. 54 | Flint, Mich by D. H. Larson; E. R. Jones

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1875

Flint, Mich.

By D. H. Larson; E. R. Jones

The first meeting after moving the tent to another part of this city was held on Thursday evening, July 15. Meetings continued without intermission until Monday, Aug. 2, when the tent was taken down and shipped to the camp-ground at Battle Creek. The real interest of the meeting was greater at the close than at any other time during its continuance. It seemed very hard to leave the place; the prospect for doing good is greater to-day than ever before. It is the general feeling of the multitude that the tent must return. There were nine Sabbath-keepers in the city when the meetings began; now there are between fifty and sixty. Some are still investigating, and many are just becoming sufficiently interested to come to the tent.

It will be next to impossible to close this work properly without the tent. No open opposition has yet sprung up, but it is coming, and cannot be suitably met without a place under our own control. We are trying to make the best possible use of our time in visiting those who need help. We constantly find those of whom we knew nothing before who now love the truth. May God in his mercy give courage and stability to the workers here, and the light of his Spirit to still search for the jewels that may yet be hidden beneath the rubbish of earthly vanity and popular error.

D. H. LARSON, E. R. JONES.