AN INTERESTING OCCASION.
By Uriah Smith
On Sunday, Feb. 25, we had the privilege of speaking twice, forenoon and evening, to the people of Baltimore, Mich., where Bro. T. M. Steward has been giving lectures for the past six weeks, and a great interest is awakened in the minds of the people for ten miles around, in regard to the truths presented by S. D. Adventists. The Methodists have entered upon a crusade of opposition, and have just had the presiding elder from Kalamazoo upon the ground to kill the interest. The most he did was (1) to outrage the memory of John Wesley by taking square ground that the law has been abolished; (2) to set forth on the prophecies such an absurd position as that the stone of Dan. 2, which is to smite the image and become the fifth universal and eternal kingdom, is the United States; and (3) to thus just about double the interest in Bro. Steward’s lectures. It is all working well. Sunday evening, the Methodists started a protracted or revival meeting in the meeting-house about a hundred rods from the large school-house where our meeting was held. How many they had at the church we do not know, but a full half hour before the time appointed, the school-house was well filled. They continued to come till every available spot even of standing room was occupied, the speaker’s stand not excepted, so that it was hardly possible to make a gesture without hitting some one. The best of attention was given throughout, while we endeavored to show them where we stand in some of the most important lines of prophecy, and what events in the religious and political world are just before us. Quite a number have already taken their stand upon the Sabbath as the result of Bro. S.’s labors, and there is prospect of a good and permanent work there. U. S.