DANVERS, MASS by Dudley Marvin Canright

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

DANVERS, MASS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Still the Lord is prospering our work here. Everything has gone favorably another week. No one has dared to preach openly against us thus far. The ministers are working a little privately, but with small effect. Our audiences keep up remarkably, running from three to six hundred. Books go off well. We receive a collection of from ten to fourteen dollars each Sunday night, as it is our custom to take up a collection once a week.

Our meetings are so extensively advertised by the people and the papers, that we have not had to get out a single bill since the first one.

Last Sabbath we had an excellent meeting. Over forty testimonies were borne. We organized a Bible-class and Sabbath-school of over sixty persons. By actual count we know of fifty who are now keeping the Sabbath, not one of whom observed it three weeks ago. And still we hope for quite a number more. Of course, among so many some will go back, but others will take their places. Very largely those who are keeping the Sabbath are most excellent people—sound and reliable. So far as we have been among them—and we have visited nearly every one—all are neat and tidy, and have well furnished homes. Yet few of them are persons of means. They are largely day laborers.

The influence of our meetings is very extensive. There are now Sabbath-keepers in almost every direction in the villages around, from two to ten miles distant. This will give us homes and open the way for labor through all the winter, so we see no end to labor here. Bro. Robinson is coming to help us. It is absolutely necessary that a meeting-house should be built here; hence we shall make an effort for this immediately. D. M. CANRIGHT.