DANVERS, MASS by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 23, 1877

DANVERS, MASS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We have now been here two weeks. If possible, the interest is growing larger every day. The past week, our audience has run from six hundred to a thousand—generally about seven hundred. They come in from every direction for miles and miles around. The whole country is stirred. All the papers report our meetings. In Danvers, they are the whole subject of conversation. In stores, in shops, and on the streets, people talk about them. All classes come, and the very best people of the city are attending constantly.

We have one continual stream of visitors from morning till night. Vases of flowers, and fruit and food of all kinds, are brought in in abundance. We have received $35 in money—donations, have sold fifty-six dollars’ worth of books, and have distributed several thousand copies of our little tent tracts. We have spent nearly a week on the life and death question, canvassing it thoroughly. It has taken wonderfully. Many profess themselves thoroughly converted to that view.

Yesterday, the Congregational minister preached against us on the prophecies. Everybody says it has hurt him badly. I review him to-morrow night.

We feel sure that God will give us some fruits of this wonderful interest, though of course a thousand things may occur to hinder the work. But even thus far, this meeting shows that as good an interest can be had in New England as anywhere else.

D. M. Canright.