NEW YORK by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1877

NEW YORK.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Canasaraga and Chittenango Falls.

THURSDAY, March 8, I came to Canasaraga to help Bro. Reynolds. I gave two lectures at Chittenango; but the weather was so very bad that it was a failure. I held meetings in the meeting-house at Canasaraga Sabbath and first-day. Quite a number of friends were present from other places. I had some freedom in speaking. We also had a good social meeting. A few outsiders were in in the evening; but there is bitter and mean opposition here. However, some eighteen or twenty good, substantial souls, mostly all men, have embraced the truth.

Sunday, Bro. R. baptized four in a pleasant place. Bro. Hall will remain two weeks to confirm them in the truth. They have the use of the church, from which they cannot be shut out. Bro. Reynolds now goes with me a few weeks.

Monday, March 12, I spent with the Chittenango Falls church. It was raised up about one year ago by Bro. Reynolds, and numbers about twenty members. Nearly all were present. After arranging for regular quarterly meetings and reviewing the condition of the cause in the State, we rearranged S. B. They took hold well, raising their pledge from about $60 to about $150. Then they also voted a third as much more for the T. and M. work. This was good, and God will bless them.

Quite a severe trial had just come up among them. So we spent some four hours examining that. It was very plain where the trouble was. Our decision and reproof was accepted by all. Then they made very humble and hearty confessions. I think they felt it deeply, as indeed they should. They wept like children. All alienation was settled, and we parted with many kind words, and better hopes.

This is a beautiful country, and there are so many promising openings that it makes one discouraged to know that we can do so little of what ought to be done.

D. M. Canright.