p. 86 | DANVERS, MASS by C. W. Stone

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1877

DANVERS, MASS.

By C. W. Stone

The good work still continues, and though a large camp-meeting held by the Methodists has been in progress four miles from here, during the past week, yet our tent has been well filled all the time. Thursday evening, Aug. 23, the tent was used by the Danvers Reform Club for a temperance mass meeting. Mr. E. A. Morse, of Canton, near Boston, the proprietor of the “Rising Sun Stove Polish” I think, a man who has sat in the legislature of the State, a man of means, influence, and culture, delivered an address. The meeting was well advertised, and the tent was crowded full, with about two hundred outside—our common number, in fact. The address was of a very lively nature, full of sharp points and good illustrations. We were glad to hear him speak of tobacco-using as one of the chief stepping stones to drunkenness, and express his convictions that tobacco-using temperance men, and Christians praying through tobacco-stained lips, are inconsistencies.

Last Sabbath forenoon, thirty-three expressed their mind to keep the Sabbath. We know of about forty who are decided. Sunday evening, Eld. Canright spoke upon the mark of the beast. He had great freedom, and the warning message seemed to confirm those who had decided, and to help others to decide. Eld. C. has spoken the truth with great plainness. Last evening, sister White came from the Groveland camp-ground, and spoke to the people here. A shower lasted until meeting time, but the people would come, as Eld. Canright had given the appointment the day before; and our tent was soon filled and surrounded, as usual. Sister White addressed the people for seventy minutes on the duty of loving God with all the heart. Though worn and weary, and not yet recovered from her severe cold, her weariness left her, and her voice became clear, while she held the audience in deep stillness in and around the tent from first to last. The rain ceased, the clouds dispersed, and the stars shone forth brightly. The result is good. People to-day express great satisfaction with the testimony she bore.

Eld. Canright has sold a large number of Bibles, which is good evidence of the power of the truth. We have taken up a collection every Sunday evening. These, with donations received, amount to $62. The people want to pay something, and they are so accustomed to seeing the contribution box come around every time they go to church that one very aptly remarked, “We shall begin to think these are not religious meetings if you do not take up a collection before long.”

C. W. Stone.