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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 8, 1877

NEW YORK.

Groton.

The interest in this place is considerable, and our attendance has continued unabated, notwithstanding the weather has been rainy and very unpleasant a large portion of the time since my last report.

Our audience is composed of the intelligence and talent of the place, and we were never favored with better attention. Sunday evening we had about three hundred out to listen to a discourse on “the End of the Wicked,” which was received with very general favor. S. B. Whitney.

New Connecticut, Oct. 27.

We commenced meetings at Green’s Corners, about seven miles south-west of New Connecticut, on the 16th inst. We have given eleven lectures so far. We are now in the midst of the Sabbath question, and the interest increases. After the lecture Thursday evening, the people made a rush for reading matter treating on the Sabbath, and soon took all we had.

We spoke on Matt. 24 last Sunday, and one old gentleman, a Methodist, said he had believed in the soon-coming of our Lord for many years, but had said nothing about it; and he was ashamed that he had not. “The truth is, my friends,” said he, “it is unpopular.”

The people are very kind and friendly. We have just received a call to labor in the village of Plessis, three miles from where we are now holding meetings. We have also a nominal interest in the Webster district, distant four miles.

To-day we met with the friends in New Connecticut, and find them firm and zealous. H. H. Wilcox. M. C. Wilcox.