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

NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA.

By B. L. Whitney; M. H. Brown

Wellsville, N. Y., Tent No. 1.

As mentioned in our last report, on Tuesday evening we reviewed Eld. Bradley’s discourse on the sleep of the soul. The tent was filled, though there was meeting in three of the churches at the time, and the entire congregation gave the closest attention for one hour and forty minutes, while we replied to his arguments and brought out the plain testimony of the Scriptures on this important question. The fact that we entirely avoided any reference to his ungentlemanly personalities had a very favorable influence upon the minds of the people generally, and has helped to give us the respect of the community.

There is a deep interest here, which is, we believe, increasing. We have good congregations every evening, though of course not as large as at first. Some have commenced to keep the Sabbath, and many are convicted on this point whom we believe will yet take their stand with us.

The spiritualists have been making some efforts of late in the vicinity, and a meeting in the Opera House is announced for one evening of this week. What the influence will be we cannot tell, but we pray that God may overrule for the advancement of his truth. B. L. WHITNEY. M. H. BROWN.