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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 26, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 5.

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NEWBURYPORT, MASS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

The last week has been one of much encouragement here. We have now been here nearly three weeks. The weather having become good, our audience has increased so that we now usually have from one hundred and fifty to two hundred out, and sometimes four hundred.
Saturday evening we had a temperance meeting in the tent, conducted by the citizens of the place. This gave us a chance to take our position on that question. Yesterday we had our first Sabbath meeting. About twenty brethren and sisters came in from Ipswich, and others came from the city, making about seventy-five. Twenty-six testimonies were borne, and we had a good meeting. By a rising vote, nearly all present declared that they believed the seventh day is the Sabbath. Then eight rose up, promising to observe that day. This we regard as a good beginning. There are a good many more for whom we have the strongest hopes.
We have sold about twenty dollars’ worth of books, obtained two subscribers for the REFORMER, twenty for the SIGNS, and have taken up one collection of $10.00. This afternoon, after speaking on the saints’ inheritance, I sold thirty-nine copies of Bro. Loughborough’s pamphlet on that subject.
We have callers at the tent almost every hour in the day, and numerous invitations out in every direction, and plenty of food is brought in. In short, we now have a really good, solid interest, though not as extensive a one as we sometimes have. We are all well, and in good spirits. We have an organ and a drilled choir of four, with Bro. C. W. Stone as leader. This helps our meetings greatly. They sing about twenty minutes before meeting every night. People come to hear the singing, and so all our audience are in early, and sit till we are through.
We have taken all pains to have everything in and about the tent neat, and clean, and orderly. Bro. Fred Mead is our tent master. We have never had any one keep the lamps and things generally as nicely as he does. Why should not a tent master do his work well? D. M. CANRIGHT.