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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

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Wellsville, Tent No. 1.

We are having a remarkable interest here. Our audiences have averaged during the past week about four hundred, though the attendance thus far has been confined mainly to the village and immediate vicinity. We have never seen more intelligent or attentive congregations than we have here; in fact, they are composed of the best class of people in the community.

There seems to be a very general friendly feeling toward us through the town. Our posters announcing the meetings are prominently displayed in most of the stores and business places of the village; and though we have not as yet invited them to do so, citizens have very kindly furnished us with food, and oil for lighting the tent. We have a standing invitation for our entire company at one of the leading hotels of the place, the proprietor of which has attended all the lectures thus far. Although the meetings have been largely attended, good order has prevailed.

Reports of the meetings are published in four of the weekly papers in the vicinity.

We still request the prayers of God's faithful people, that we may have wisdom so to present the truth that some may be led to obey. B. L. WHITNEY. M. H. BROWN.

Aug. 6, 1877.

Pulaski, Tent No. 2.

Our meetings during the past week have proved a success. Some of the hopeful cases are decided on the Sabbath, as the result. Sunday, two were baptized. Perfect quiet and decorum were observed by all of the large number who witnessed the ceremony. As a number were prevented from going forward by sickness or a want of readiness, we decide to remain and have baptism again next Sunday, and give a more permanent character to the work.

A few days since we passed through a storm that did an amount of damage estimated at $50,000 in this town, in unroofing buildings, blowing down buildings, chimneys, trees, fences, etc.; but our tent came out of it without a dollar's worth of apparent damage. The moral and religious elements are also becoming considerably disturbed, but these harm us but little if any more than the natural. The interest continues almost unabated. We had between three and four hundred out on Sunday evening. S. B. WHITNEY.

Chautauqua Co., Tent No. 3.

We held our first Sabbath meeting in Jamestown, Aug. 4, with good results. A number took their stand on the Sabbath. Three heads of families are firm in the truth. Our afternoon meetings are a power for good. The attendance is increasing, and the interest is spreading. The evening meetings are attended by very many of the same persons every evening. This we regard as more encouraging than immense numbers. Our hope and trust is in the Lord. CHAS. B. REYNOLDS.

Glensdale, Lewis Co., Tent No. 5.

When we came to this place, nine weeks ago, we were entire strangers to every one, and we could not hear of a Sabbath-keeper in all this region of country; but the Lord has graciously opened the way before us, and has raised us up many kind friends. He has prospered our work, so that we have organized a class of sixteen; and we believe that others who have just commenced to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” will soon be added to their number. Some have left off the use of tea and tobacco, and about seventy-five persons have signed our temperance pledge.

We expect to administer the rite of baptism soon. JACOB WILBUR. A. P. BUMP.