p. 78 | ROME, N. Y by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 31, 1876

ROME, N. Y.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

The last week has been one of decided interest in the tent. Tuesday night we were made glad by having Bro. and Sr. White, Bro. Smith, and Miss Clough, with us. We advertised that Sr. White would speak in the tent, and every seat was crowded, and some stood up. The discourse left a good impression, though Sr. White’s health was poor.

The weather being cooler, the people have come out better than on the previous week, so that at every meeting we have had a large audience, ranging from four hundred to six hundred. An excellent Christian woman who had just embraced the truth here, died. The Methodist church where she formerly belonged, and also the Baptist, refused us their house for the funeral. This created much feeling against them, and made our friends more numerous and zealous. Sunday afternoon I preached the funeral sermon in the tent. Every seat was crowded, as all classes were represented.

The spirit of opposition and persecution is becoming quite strong. Different ministers are preaching against us now every Sunday, and we review them during the week. We have a good Sabbath-school and Bible-class Sabbath forenoon. After the sermon last Sabbath, forty good testimonies were borne in favor of the truth, several saying that it was the first Sabbath they had ever kept, others that it was the second, and so on. As nearly as we can count now, there are seventy-five keeping the Sabbath in the city and within five miles around it. Where there are so many, of course we expect more or less changes in some cases, but still there are scores for whom we yet hope.

Where the interest is so extensive as this has been from the beginning, and is still, the work cannot be done up in a hurry, or left very soon. We hope to be able to follow it up after camp-meeting. We feel thankful to God for the great encouragement we have had at this meeting. We hope it may encourage our brethren in New York particularly, and that we may see a great work done in this city the coming winter.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

Rome, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1876.