p. 48 | The Outlook by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 3, 1876

The Outlook.

By Uriah Smith

The twenty-four stirring reports in our progress department this week, will give the interested reader something of an idea of how matters are moving in the wide harvest field. Brethren from almost every quarter, in private notes, speak of the unusual interest attending their labors this season, beyond anything they ever before experienced. Just as we go to press a private letter comes to hand from Brn. T. J. Butler, and T. M. Steward now holding a tent meeting in New Antioch, O., in which they say:—

“We have a general attendance of 300 on an average through the week and on Sunday from 500 to 700. On Sunday evening we had all of 500 teams, and not less than 2000 people. It is certainly beyond anything we ever saw in our experience. The interest is rapidly spreading. Some fourteen different towns were represented in our meeting Sunday night. Notwithstanding the large crowd, we had good order and hundreds listened attentively. On first-day and evening it seems like a camp-meeting.”

A great interest, of course, is not a finished work. But when the truth has power thus to interest people, we have good ground to hope that it will convince and convert a goodly number of them. U. S.