Boston Herald Interview with Evangelical Adventist Pastor
The Boston Sunday Herald of July 6, 1879, publishes an interview of one of its reporters with Eld. C. Cunningham, pastor of the Hudson-St. (Evangelical Adventist) church, in which Eld. C. is reported as saying that “his society was that of the Evangelical Adventists, professing a faith to be found in every hymn book in Boston. . . . Our faith differs very little from the Methodists and Baptists. . . . We are the smallest body of our sect, and, outside of Boston, have not a church in thirty miles. There is one in Newburyport, and a large one in Providence with a congregation of 400. The Hudson-street church has about a hundred members. In places where we have no churches our people worship with the Methodists or Baptists.” The query arises, Why not all worship with Methodists or Baptists?