EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
By Uriah Smith
THE NEW ENGLAND CAMP-MEETING.
This meeting is now in the past. Results have already appeared sufficiently cheering to be accepted as a full compensation for all the labor and outlay of the meeting. When people who before were unacquainted with our faith, are heard acknowledging the same, and are seen openly taking their stand upon it, being convinced by the evidence presented, it is cheering proof that the meeting has not been in vain. Fruit of this kind is already seen, and a deep and wide-spread impression is made upon the community around. We learn that some effort is to be made to follow up the interest. There were nearly sixty tents up, and a larger number of Sabbath-keepers present than at any previous camp-meeting in New England. On Sunday, from earliest morning to noon, it was cloudy and rainy, which kept away the expected crowd. However, some seven or eight thousand were present in the afternoon. As many as could be conveniently seated in the large tent listened attentively to a discourse by Bro. Haskell on “Who Changed the Sabbath?” and to Sr. White on “Temperance,” while Bro. Farnsworth held a meeting in a large hall in another part of the ground. These followed discourses in the forenoon on the subjects of the “Sanctuary,” and the “Sunday in the New Testament.” The attendance from without was quite good through all the meetings, and the best of attention was paid to the word spoken. In all, twenty-one discourses were given, as follows: Bro. Haskell, five; Bro. Farnsworth, four; Sr. White, three; Brn. B. L. Whitney, Goodrich and Haines, each one; and the writer, six. The coming of Sr. White to this meeting was timely. She had a testimony to bear to the brethren and sisters of New England which was much needed, and will do good. Her labors in the social meetings were abundant, and greatly blessed to the interest of the meeting. Nearly two hundred came forward for prayers, quite a number for the first time. Twenty-two were baptized by Bro. Robinson on Monday. Full and faithful reports of the meetings each day were furnished to all the leading papers of New England by Sr. B. L. Whitney and her assistants, so that the sound of the meeting has gone extensively abroad. Nearly two hundred were present at the parting meeting Tuesday morning; and there not being time for every one to bear an individual testimony, they all, by a unanimous rising vote, entered into a new covenant one with another to live a higher life, so as to be better representatives of the truth, and more efficient workers in its behalf. We fully believe that this meeting will prove as great a blessing to the cause in New England as any ever held; and the brethren have reason to be encouraged by the evidences of the progress of the work in their midst. U. S. West Wilton, N. H., Sept. 4.