OHIO by Joseph Harvey Waggoner

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

OHIO

By Joseph Harvey Waggoner

Newark, Licking Co.

The interest in the meetings in Newark increases, though the circumstances are unfavorable. Some nights have been uncomfortably cold, and it has rained almost every day or night since we commenced. We can judge but little of the interest by the size of the congregations in bad weather, for some are reading and are deeply interested who dare not attend at the tent. I am sorry that our tent leaks badly; it is quite unfit to hold meetings in at this time of year.

Our book sales have not been large, but including the sales at the camp-meeting the purchases in the city will at least reach $60. Besides this, great quantities of reading matter have been lent by the tract distributors, and thousands of pages given away. Wherever a house has been missed by the distributors it is found that the neighbors have lent to them, so that about all in the city have read some.

The late strike was very disastrous to Newark; times are very hard since, and money scarce. This affects our book sales.

The work here cannot be finished up in a hurry. Somebody ought to spend about all the winter in and about this city. With the amount of reading that is being done, and the wide-spread interest that exists, to hasten a decision or precipitate a crisis would do great injustice to the work. The sickness of the President of the Conference has made it very difficult to decide in regard to the future.

J. H. Waggoner.

Sept. 14, 1877.