New Bedford, Mass by D. A. Robinson

International Tract and Missionary Society · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jul 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 27.

New Bedford, Mass.

By D. A. Robinson

WE pitched our tent in this place last week, and began meetings Friday evening, June 25. New Bedford is a city of thirty-five thousand inhabitants. It is a seaport town, and in former years was engaged largely in the whaling business. Just across the Acushnet River is Fairhaven, the home of Elder Joseph Bates, one of the early pioneers in the cause. The old house still stands in which, without money or friends, he wrote the first publication on the Sabbath question that was issued by Seventh-day Adventists. New Bedford is two hundred and twenty-one years old; houses that have stood a century and more are not uncommon here.

Our meetings have begun with a fair attendance, and the people seem very friendly and kind. We have advertised our meetings as thoroughly as we know how. To-day we placed in the hands of the horse-car officials, large placards announcing our meetings; these they will place on the ends of their cars.

Two daily papers in the place give very favorable notices of our meetings. The efforts of the mission workers who have been here have contributed mainly to the tender feeling that exists. We hope and trust that, with the help of God, we shall be able to gather some fruit for the heavenly garner.

D. A. ROBINSON.