DANVERS, MASS by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1877

DANVERS, MASS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

The last week has been the most encouraging of any we have had. Our audiences have kept up much better than we could expect. We still have a regular attendance of from two to five hundred. All the unpopular features of our faith have now been presented, and still the people come. Twenty took their stand upon the Sabbath last week, making seventy in all. I think they average as well as any company I have ever seen. We feared that in this manufacturing town the men would not embrace the truth, but we have been happily disappointed. A good many whole families have embraced the truth. There are about thirty men among them. Several of these are quite capable, and will make good leaders in the church, so that we have as promising a prospect as I have ever seen.

We have rented a good hall a few steps from the tent, into which we can move any day. And now we must have a house. We have started a subscription, have our plans drawn, and are looking for a lot. Land is very high, but there is plenty for sale. Before the brethren read this report we expect to have our house well begun. We have no hopes of receiving enough here to build the house, as new friends do not appreciate the importance of sacrificing as old brethren do, and most of them are in moderate circumstances any way. We expect our brethren through the Conference to help us. The weather is fine.

For a couple of weeks I have been very tired, and my throat has again troubled me a great deal, but I hope this difficulty will soon wear off. D. M. CANRIGHT.

Sept. 11, 1877.