COLORADO TENT by M. E. Cornell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1878

COLORADO TENT.

By M. E. Cornell

Our tent-meeting in Georgetown has closed. The nights became so cold we could not make the tent comfortable with two stoves. The altitude is so great here (about 9,000 feet) that we have had frost, snow, and ice. Many of our interested hearers took cold, and dare not come out any more. Several have decided to keep the Sabbath, and arrangements are made for three meetings a week. A first-day Adventist preacher and a Methodist preacher have taken their stand for the whole truth. The latter has taken a full supply of books, with the determination to prepare himself to defend the truth. He is an acceptable speaker, just in the prime of life. We trust the Lord can fit him to show others the truth that has rejoiced his own heart.

Bro. White and his company were here over one Sabbath and first-day, and his three discourses, together with the singing, added much to the interest of the meeting.

The papers have treated us very fairly thus far. They are as correct in their statements of our views as we could expect. As a specimen we clip the following from the Denver Daily Tribune, of Sept. 15:—

“A series of religious meetings advocating Adventism are being held in a large tent erected for the purpose, a short distance south of the Colorado Central depot. Notwithstanding the unsuitability of the weather for tent-meetings, they are well attended every night. Eld. M. E. Cornell is the champion orator, and handles the subject with simple but powerful language, wonderfully free from equivocation or ambiguity. He is fearfully in earnest and betrays an astonishing profundity of Biblical lore, though it was evidently accumulated with a special reference to the promulgation of the doctrine which he so valiantly expounds. He admits the phenomena of modern spiritualism, but ascribes the manifestations entirely to Satanic agency. His interpretation of scriptural prophecies is certainly very ingenious and plausible”

Our tent is shipped to Boulder, and, if the weather permit, will be pitched at Longmont, down on the plains. Till further notice, our address will be Boulder City, Colo.

M. E. CORNELL.

Georgetown, Sept. 22.