CANADA by A. C. Bourdeau; R. S. Owen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 13, 1876

CANADA

By A. C. Bourdeau; R. S. Owen

Three families have recently embraced the truth in South Stukely. Hold weekly meetings there on Friday evenings, and speak in English and in French. Hold weekly Sabbath meetings also two miles from there in a stone school-house in West Bolton. The new friends of the cause were happy to see Bro. A. S. Hutchins in their midst Sabbath and first-day, June 24 and 25. Speaking of his visit in West Bolton, the Waterloo Advertiser says:—

“Eld. A. S. Hutchins, President of the Vermont and Canada East Seventh-day Adventist Conference, joined Eld. A. C. Bourdeau at this place and held meetings on Saturday and Sunday last. He was happy to find twenty heads of families converted to the faith as the result of Eld. Bourdeau’s labors in this section during the past winter. It is expected that ten or twelve candidates for baptism will be immersed by Eld. Bourdeau in a few days.”

We are now in Waterloo, P. Q., a village of nearly four thousand inhabitants—two-thirds of whom are Catholics. Have pitched our tent near the park. Have advertised our meetings in the Advertiser, and circulated upwards of three hundred hand-bills. There is an increasing interest to hear the truth. Several have invited us to visit them already. We feel that without the Lord we can do nothing. He has greatly helped us thus far. Pray that we may be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Our post-office address till the first of October next will be Waterloo, P. Q.

A. C. Bourdeau, R. S. Owen.

Waterloo, P. Q., July 3, 1876.