AND COMPARE IT WITH ELD. GRANT'S COURSE AT THE SPRINGFIELD CAMP-MEETING.
While conducting a tent-meeting in Chelsea, Mass., in 1869, I was several times interrupted while speaking with questions and objections by Eld. Miles Grant, he even claiming the right to argue his points before the people in my meeting. On one occasion, he continued to interrupt until many were wearied and disgusted, and it was not until he was sharply reproved, and we had appealed to the audience for the right to speak under our own canvass without molestation, that he was prevailed upon to keep quiet and allow me to go on with my lecture.
And, because I insisted that he should wait until I had finished my discourse, he very impatiently charged, that I “wanted to gag him down lest he should overthrow my positions.” During the same series of lectures, one of their preachers came to the tent and circulated opposition tracts in our congregation. This was done very boldly and defiantly, but we made no objection. M. E. CORNELL.