KANSAS, WESTERN TENT by J. Lamont

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 4.

KANSAS, WESTERN TENT.

By J. Lamont

As the tent did not arrive at the time appointed for the meetings to begin, the Methodist brethren kindly gave us the use of their house till it came. On the arrival of the tent, we pitched it across the street, directly opposite the church we had been using. The other churches and the court-house also are in the immediate neighborhood. Our congregations have numbered about one hundred all the time, and for the most part have included the same persons who came on the first evening.

We are now in the midst of the Sabbath question. We expect to see some embrace the Sabbath as soon as the evidence is fully before them. On the day of our first meeting we had circulars printed, containing a special notice of the meeting, the subject of the discourse with its prominent divisions, an invitation to attend, and a suitable stanza and Scripture quotation. These were left upon showcases, in the shops and offices, and at nearly every dwelling in the city. And although there were gatherings at every church in the city, one of them a festival, also a political meeting at the court-house, we had a fair congregation.

We have, from time to time, as the interest seemed to demand, had recourse to the same means with like results. We have also had the usual notices in the city papers, and a bulletin-board in front of the tent giving the subject, &c., for each evening.

May the Lord bless his truth.

J. LAMONT.

Council Grove, July 7, 1876.