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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 2, 1877

Greenwood, Tent No. 2.

We have held nine meetings at Greenwood, with an average attendance of sixty, who have listened attentively. Order has been good. Interest is on the increase. The Methodist minister of this place spoke against us on the subject of the Sabbath last evening, July 19. To-night we speak upon this subject, noticing his arguments in their proper places.

H. W. Decker. O. A. Johnson.

Fall River, Tent No. 4.

We met no open opposition here until last Sunday, the 22d, though the Methodists, led by their minister, had maintained a constant guerrilla warfare. Last week, Eld. Cook, M. E., preached on the Sabbath question. The house was full. He was much embarrassed, and made a very poor attempt to sustain the Sabbath, to prove that no day could be kept, to establish Sunday, and finally to abolish all Sabbath obligations. He misquoted Scripture freely to prove his positions, and referred several times to “Pope Constantine.” His absurdities were exposed in the evening before three hundred hearers. The discomfiture of error is manifest in the wrath which is aroused.

Sabbath day a number of our brethren

met with us; about a dozen from this place were out. As far as we know, but one family has taken hold of the truth, but we hope for a few more. We shall remain another week, then move to Poynette, twenty miles west from here, unless the interest should demand a longer stay.

G. C. Tenney. H. W. Reed.

Ellsworth.

The interest here is still good. We have presented the Sabbath question quite fully. Many are convinced of the truth, and some have decided to forsake tradition and keep the commandments of God. Last Sabbath, July 21, over forty attended the Sabbath-school and Bible class in the tent.

We hope for much fruit, and intend to follow up the interest until the work is done.

W. B. Hill. S. Fulton.