Marlow, N. H by R. M. Kilgore

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1874

Marlow, N. H.

By R. M. Kilgore

SINCE our last report, our audiences have increased and retained an average of about one hundred and twenty-five. We have not yet finished the Sabbath question. Already many are convinced of its claims upon them, and some have decided to obey even at a great loss to them, being thrown out of occupation. The ministers are quiet on the surface. We have the ears of a good class of intelligent people, and our prayer is that God may work upon the heart. He has helped in speaking his truth. We have our first Sabbath meeting next Sabbath. Oh! may God meet with us and give the Spirit’s power.

I would say a word to those who are laboring in the different tents in the wide field, that we have at last overcome a long-known difficulty, i. e., we have our tent seated with backs to nearly all of the seats, and we find that these are first filled, and we often hear the remark from the ladies, “I could not come if it were not for these backs.” It is merely a simple arrangement consisting of two boards, twelve inches wide each, one for the seat, the other for the back, and held in position by two or three pieces of hoop iron, each cut two feet long with a screw hole in each end, fastened with screws to the back, one inch from the top on the back side, and brought over and fastened to the lower side of the seat, one or more inches from the front. By this arrangement, two of us were about thirty minutes seating our tent, and they are as permanent to-day as they were when put up three weeks ago; and the whole did not cost one dollar. By using a little ingenuity, they are very easily made.

R. M. Kilgore.

July 30, 1874.