DANVERS, MASS by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1877

DANVERS, MASS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

WE have had another week of much encouragement here. The interest has kept up well, rather increased, if anything. The mass of the people are friendly to us. There is no opposition to speak of from any source. Every day reports of our meetings are published in the daily papers, and each week in the weeklies. To-day the Salem Post, a widely circulated paper, comes out with a whole column, giving an excellent report of our meetings. These things are creating a great interest in all the adjoining towns.

Our work is now known in all this region, and we have invitations to preach in every direction. People living six and eight miles away are embracing the Sabbath. Our meetings continue to be the absorbing topic of the town in every store, in the shop, and on the streets. We have more invitations than all of us can fill, and abundance of provisions is still brought in every day. We have received $50, collection, in money, sold ninety dollars’ worth of books, and obtained twenty-eight subscribers for the SIGNS. As near as we can learn now, about twenty have fully decided upon the Sabbath, though it is less than a week since I introduced it. Of course, we hope for many more; but the shoe shops will hold many from the truth, as this is the main business here. All work in gangs, and if one stops it stops the whole. But some will obey God any way, while probably the most will not.

D. M. CANRIGHT.