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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 18, 1878

Tent No. 1, Reese’s Mills, Boone Co.

We have now been here three weeks. The turnout is good considering the very busy season of the year. During harvest our congregations have averaged about one hundred. Some are deeply interested. Held our first Sabbath meeting, Sabbath, July 6. About thirty-five were present. Some took a decided stand, and voted to keep the Sabbath. Among the number is the post-master.

People are very kind to us, and thus far have donated enough to pay our expenses. Our Sunday evening congregations range from three hundred to four hundred and fifty. Some come as far as thirteen miles to our meetings.

S. H. LANE. J. T. RICHARDS. J. S. SHROCK.

Tent No. 2, Alexandria, July 9.

Since we have brought the Sabbath question before the people, the attendance has been somewhat smaller. There is much prejudice. The Methodist minister will speak against us on the Sabbath question next Sunday.

Some are deeply interested. Eight or more are keeping the Sabbath. Among them is a young man of ability who is teaching a normal school in a town near here. He remarked, “I cannot resist this great truth.” He intends to attend the college the coming school year, to fit himself for usefulness in the great harvest field. We have hope of eight or ten others.

We remain here another week, and longer if the interest demands. Bro. F. D. Allen, brother of Prof. N. Allen, of Missouri, joined us last week. We hope to see a permanent work done here. To this end we labor.

W. W. SHARP.