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Indiana Tent Meetings at Michigantown Amid Storms

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 29, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 7.

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Indiana Tent Meetings at Michigantown Amid Storms

By S. H. Lane; E. R. Jones

Indiana.

At the time of our last report, we had given at Michigantown, Clinton Co., fourteen discourses. Since that time, we have held meetings when circumstances would admit. The weather has been very stormy since we pitched the tent. We have been here nearly six weeks, and we can safely affirm that the tent has been wet one half of the time. We have encountered some severe storms. The fourth of July, just before the commencement of the Sabbath, this portion of the country was visited with as hard a storm of wind, rain, and, in some localities, hail, as has been known for several years. Trees were torn up by the roots, and in some places, houses were unroofed. The tent was blown down. Through the protection of the Lord, we were not injured, nor was the tent damaged in the least. Evening after the Sabbath, and first-day morning, assisted by kind friends, we were enabled to pitch the tent and resume the meetings.
The congregations have been large, considering the busy period of the year. We have given thirty-eight discourses. Have received much opposition from the ministers of the Christian denomination. Three discourses have been given against the positions we take concerning the Kingdom and Sabbath. These discourses were given in such a manner as to displease a large majority of the people who listened to them, and the result has been to make the people more friendly to our positions.
We have held three Sabbath meetings. Have experienced some of the blessing of the Lord, and hearts have been reached. Fifteen have, by a rising vote, publicly declared their determination to keep the Sabbath. Others are interested, and we look for some more to take a decided stand. Have disposed, thus far, of twenty dollars' worth of books. We remain here one week longer, and then expect to pitch the tent at Rossville, in this county. We hope that success may attend the effort. We ask an interest in the prayers of God's people.
S. H. LANE, E. R. JONES.