PITCH YOUR TENT FIRMLY by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 5, 1879

PITCH YOUR TENT FIRMLY.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Within a month, seventy-five or one hundred tents will be pitched by our preachers, and all these will be pitched once or twice again during the season. How many of these will be blown down by storms? That depends wholly on how they are pitched. If they are pitched as they should be, not one will go over. No one need tell me that a tent cannot be secured so it will not blow over. A gale may tear it and riddle it, but it need not fall over.

The remedy is easy. Put your stakes down deep and firm. The stakes holding the large guys from the center pole should be at least five inches in diameter and four feet long. With a spade dig a hole three feet deep, and pack stones around the stake. It is not an hour’s work for one man. Then you are secure. The trouble is, some of us are afraid of a little hard work and so let it go with, “I guess it will do.”

The small guy stakes should be at least two feet long, driven down eighteen inches. If the ground is sandy or soft they must be longer. Better do a little extra needless work on the start than risk a blow down afterwards.

D. M. CANRIGHT.