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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 12.

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NEW YORK.

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

Wellsville, Tent No. 1.

To-day, Sept. 3, we have taken down our tent, and shipped it to the camp-ground at Carthage; but as the interest seems to demand it, we have arranged to pitch a fifty-foot tent on the same ground to-morrow, and so continue our meetings. Probably one of us will remain here during the camp-meeting.
The interest remains good, and we have had good congregations during our stay here, yet the people seem slow to move. We expected this would be the case. Several have decided to keep the Sabbath; just how many we cannot definitely report.
Sabbath and Sunday, we had a general meeting of the brethren in this vicinity at the tent; and although no public appointment of the meeting had been given, and no special effort had been made to secure the attendance of brethren from other localities, one hundred or more brethren were present.
Sunday morning we considered the question of a house of worship for this place, and it was the unanimous judgment of the brethren that one should be built here immediately. There are some twenty of our old brethren who would find this the most convenient place for Sabbath meetings, aside from those who have become interested as the result of the meetings here. These are members of the church at Niles Hill, and all have to go from five to fifteen miles to attend their Sabbath meetings. Under these circumstances, it was decided that these brethren should organize as a society by themselves, and establish Sabbath meetings here; and by a unanimous vote of the church they were allowed to withdraw from the Niles Hill church for that purpose. This will form a nucleus around which to build up the cause here.
The matter of raising funds for building was then considered, and in a short time over $900.00 were pledged for this purpose. This insures the success of this enterprise, and immediate steps will be taken for getting the work under way. We are now negotiating for a lot on which to build.
B. L. WHITNEY. M. H. BROWN.