NEWBURYPORT, MASS by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 19, 1877

NEWBURYPORT, MASS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We have now held meetings two weeks. The last week has been quite encouraging. We have had a steady audience of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty.

The weather has been wholly against us from the beginning. It has been very cold, raining most every day with high winds. We have not had even one real warm, pleasant evening. People who come get cold and then stay away. Both Sunday evenings our meetings have been broken up by the weather. Under the circumstances, we have had as good an interest as we could expect. Those who come have manifested the deepest interest. We have sold quite a number of books and obtained several subscribers. The people bring in food, and we have plenty of invitations out.

As this is an old Advent field, a good share of our audience are ’44 Adventists. I have taken up the ’44 time-question quite thoroughly, particularly the cleansing of the sanctuary and the messages. It seems to have made a deep impression on their minds. They say that there is a light, life, and power with this truth which they do not have. Yesterday, I introduced the Sabbath question. Cannot tell the effect yet. Eld. Josiah Litch, of the Herald party, is pastor of an Adventist church here. He is friendly, and comes in to see us frequently; but that is all. He has abandoned all the positions taken upon the prophecies by the Adventists in 1844, and thinks that most of the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation are yet to be fulfilled. The third angel’s message saves us from all this confusion.

D. M. CANRIGHT.