Wisconsin Tent by D. Downer

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

Wisconsin Tent.

By D. Downer

I have been here one week. The interest to hear is increasing. The congregations average from thirty-five to two hundred. The country is new; people are very busy haying; and the first-day Adventists are holding a tent-meeting only a few miles distant. Some go there who would otherwise attend our meetings.

There is, as is usually the case, some opposition by the professors in other churches. I think, however, the truth is winning the people here. I am, and have been, entirely alone; no tent-master, or any one to assist me in speaking. Bro. Sanborn will not be here till August, being detained at home with his wife.

The tent is old, and badly worn. It demands my almost constant care, and would not stand a common wind storm, unless in a forest, and well protected. I am preaching nights, and three times Sundays. Dear brethren, I need your prayers, and God's help. Don't forget us at the throne of grace.

This is an entirely new field. The people are a hardy, hard-working class, and if they can or will turn their attention to religion as earnestly as they have to clearing up the forests, we shall hope to see the truth established here permanently. D. DOWNER.

Modena, Buffalo Co., July 20, 1873.