S. D. BAPTIST TENT

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1879

S. D. BAPTIST TENT.

We are happy to learn that the tent enterprise among the S. D. Baptists is meeting with encouraging success. From a report by H. D. Clarke, in the Sabbath Recorder of Aug. 21, we quote the following:—

Well, the people flock to our tent feeling a freedom that is really cheering. Sunday afternoon we had a large audience. In the evening about sundown, they began flocking in until every seat was occupied, and then the neighbors began to bring their own chairs, and we tore up half of our platform and made seats with the plank. All were filled, and the remainder of the platform around the organ and speaker, the number of persons reaching four hundred. The streets about the tent were occupied by groups, and in the road were carriages filled with families, eagerly catching the words of the speaker and singer. And then, after service, to see them crowd around us for tracts, was indeed a sight which every Seventh-day Baptist ought to have witnessed. This is no fancy sketch. Dear brethren, the masses are now looking to you for light on this subject. Whether they will live up to the light they receive or not, one thing is certain, they want to hear and read. Will you supply this demand? Be faithless no longer, but go forward, leaving the results with God. Do you stop to ask, “How many of them will keep the Sabbath? Are there enough of them to make it an object?” Go forward, is God’s command. With the mountains on either side, the Red Sea in front, and a pursuing enemy behind, hear the Commander’s voice, “Go forward.” The sea will open.

May the blessings of the Infinite One be upon those who take hold of this great reform.