Reports from the Field

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1877

Reports from the Field.

(Condensed from Review and Herald.)

New York.

WELLSVILLE.—Remarkable interest is reported from the tent in this place. The audiences average about four hundred, composed of the best class of people in the community. Brethren Whitney and Brown state:—“We have never seen more intelligent or attentive congregations than we have here. There seems to be a very general friendly feeling toward us through the town. Our posters announcing the meetings are prominently displayed in the business places of the village. Reports of the meetings are published in four of the weekly papers in the vicinity. We desire wisdom to so present the truth that some may be led to obey.”

JAMESTOWN.—Elder Reynolds writes:—“We held our first Sabbath meeting here on August 4. A number took their stand on the Sabbath. Our afternoon meetings are a power for good. The attendance is increasing, and the interest is spreading. The evening meetings are attended by very many of the same persons every evening. This we regard as more encouraging than immense numbers. Our hope and trust is in the Lord.”

PULASKI.—Elder S. B. Whitney reports:—“Our meetings the past week have been a success. Some of the hopeful cases are decided on the Sabbath, as the result. A few days since we passed through a storm that did an amount of damage estimated at $50,000 in this town, in unroofing buildings, blowing down buildings, chimneys, trees, fences, etc.; but our tent came out of it without a dollar’s worth of apparent damage. The moral and religious elements are also becoming considerably disturbed, but these harm us but little, if any, more than the natural. The interest continues almost unabated. We had between three and four hundred out on Sunday evening.”

GLENSDALE.—Elders Jacob Wilbur and A. P. Bump write:—“When we came to this place nine weeks ago, we were entire strangers to every one, and we could not hear of a Sabbath-keeper in all this region of country; but the Lord has graciously opened the way before us, and has raised us up many kind friends. He has prospered our work, so that we have organized a class of sixteen; and we believe that others who have just commenced to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” will soon be added to their number. Some have left off the use of tea and tobacco, and about seventy-five persons have signed our temperance pledge.”

Michigan.

LAKEVIEW.—Since the last report from this place, six more have decided to obey the truth. The interest is increasing, and the work is extending farther into the country. Eighteen have decided to keep God’s commandments since meetings were commenced here.

Indiana.

SOMERSET.—Brethren Sharp and Covert have been holding meetings in this place for four weeks. They have given thirty-seven discourses, sold fourteen dollars’ worth of books, and held three Sabbath meetings. Eight or ten are keeping the Sabbath, and several others are interested.

Vermont.

WEST BOLTON.—Elder Hutchins writes:—“I was with the friends here two Sabbaths. We held one meeting on First-day, and some evening meetings. Brethren Smith and Fuller were chosen to act as elders of the church, and three were received into the church.”

Illinois.

ROCKFORD.—Elders R. F. Andrews and G. W. Colcord report as follows:—“We have now, August 8, been here eight weeks. Have been required to give a “long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether,” else we should not have succeeded. As it is, the Lord grants us some fruit, and to him we ascribe the praise. Two weeks ago three were baptized, and eight more last first-day. We cannot state with definiteness how many are now observing the Sabbath as the result of our effort at this place; but we hope to organize a company of commandment-keepers at our next Sabbath meeting.”

Ohio.

VAN WERT COUNTY.—Elder St. John reports the work still progressing in this county. In Merrick school-house, six miles north-east of Van Wert, Brother Underwood has been holding meetings. In the short space of seventeen days, he held twenty-one meetings, sold ten dollars’ worth of books, and with the help of the Lord, brought from fifteen to twenty precious souls to the observance of the Lord’s holy Sabbath.

Kentucky.

EDMONTON.—Brethren Osborn and Soule write:—“At the close of the tent-meeting here we held a few meetings some three miles in the country, where the principal interest seemed to be. Nine signed the covenant to keep all of God’s commandments and the faith of Jesus; and others said they would keep the Sabbath.”