S. B. WHITNEY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 13, 1877

Mannsville, Tent No. 2.

Our meetings are still in continuance here, but the weather has become wet and cold, which, with some other things, has tended to reduce the number in attendance. The interest has not been very deep or extensive, but we hope for some good. We design to remain up to about the time of the camp-meeting, and do what we can.

S. B. WHITNEY

Glendale, Lewis Co., Tent No. 5.

Our tent-meetings in this place will close to-morrow night, so that the tent can go to Carthage for the use of the Camp-meeting Committee. We intend to remain a week longer to carry forward the work. Since we came here the 30th of last May, we have given more than one hundred and sixty discourses. As the result, over twenty are keeping the Sabbath, and many more acknowledge its claims.

We administered the rite of baptism to five adult persons last week, three of whom never made a profession of religion before attending these meetings. Two of them were our bitter enemies a few weeks ago, but are now warm friends; one, the son of a “local preacher,” who had talked against us and the Sabbath of the Lord, came a week ago with tears in his eyes, and made a humble confession before us and his neighbors; and, like Saul of Tarsus, has gone to work to build up that which he had previously tried to tear down. The other was a French Catholic, who, in the old country, was a soldier for more than twenty years, and who served four years in the late war of the rebellion. When we spoke on the “little horn” of the seventh chapter of Daniel, he rushed out of the meeting exclaiming, “If I had a pistol I would shoot that Wilbur, I would shoot him, I would shoot him, I would.” But he is now truly converted to God, and is keeping the commandments. It gives us pleasure to hear him talk and pray in our meetings. We expect that his wife, and others, will be baptized soon.

There is much hard work to be done for this people yet. Pray for them, and us.

JACOB WILBUR. A. P. BUMP.