NEW YORK by S. B. Whitney

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 19.

NEW YORK.

By S. B. Whitney

SINCE my last report I have visited Sweden twice. A few have proved themselves stony-ground hearers, but the rest are firm and growing. They have regular meetings and Sabbath-school established, and the interest seems to be extending to other neighborhoods around them.

Bro. and Sr. Prentiss of Brockport have taken a lively interest in the success of these efforts, and invited me to speak at their house, which I did. About thirty of their neighbors gathered in on a short notice. The Baptist minister there also expressed a desire to have me preach in his church, and the last time I was in the place, Bro. P. having informed him of my coming, he called on me and very courteously invited me to do so, saying as he left, “Take all the liberty you wish; talk as long as you have a mind to, and say what you please. We probably need some things you have to say to us.” His conduct was all of the same character, and was the more gratifying from the fact that he is acquainted with our peculiarities as a people.

I also visited two sisters in Weedsport, one of whom has been keeping the Sabbath for some years; but the other, a very refined and intelligent widow lady with two fine children, aged respectively nineteen and seventeen, has but recently taken her stand upon it. Both embraced it by reading; one has heard but little preaching upon the present truth, and the other not any. They joined the Tract Society and made a donation to the cause, and are anxious to have meetings.

Have just received a letter from a gentleman in Pennsylvania inclosing five dollars, with a promise to send that amount or more every quarter, stating that he takes the REVIEW and SIGNS, and is a little interested in our cause, and inviting a preacher to call on him. S. B. WHITNEY.

Frankfort, N. Y., April 30, 1876.