Maine: Visits and Meetings Among the Bradford Believers
By W. H. Blaisdell
Since our camp-meeting, Bro. Webber and I have visited the friends in Bradford, and spent several weeks with them. The most of those who embraced the truth when we were there with the tent are still holding on, and seem to have a good determination to walk in the light of present truth. Our meetings generally were characterized with a good degree of interest, and many of them with feelings of deep solemnity. As we presented the light on the spirit of prophecy, the health reform, &c., we were very glad to see manifested among the brethren and sisters generally a good degree of willingness to believe the truth on these subjects, and a readiness by the most of them to engage immediately in the work of reform. We organized Systematic Benevolence, and the pledge for a year was $76.56. Spiritualism prevails very largely in that town, and its doctrines seem to pervade a very large portion of the community to a greater or less degree. The spirit of infidelity is very extensive, and while we have labored there, and seen a company brought out upon the present truth, though many influences have been brought to bear against it, we have often been reminded of the following words from the “Song of the Reapers.” “Go out in the by-ways and search them all;
The wheat may be there, though the weeds are tall;
Then search in the high-way, and pass none by,
But gather from all for the home on high.”
May the Lord help these dear brethren and sisters to endure unto the end. Rome, Me., Nov. 17, 1873.