Reports from the Field

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 4, 1878

Reports from the Field.

(Condensed from Review and Herald.)

Michigan.

BIRMINGHAM.—Brethren Corliss and Potter report as follows: “Commenced meetings here in the tent, June 8, with a congregation of about one hundred. The interest has steadily increased, and last evening the tent would not accommodate all who came. Fully five hundred were present, and excellent attention was given. The immortality question has now been quite fully canvassed, and our views have been well received.

LABOR AMONG THE CHURCHES.—Elder Littlejohn reports meetings of interest and profit with the church in Otsego. On Sunday the house of worship was well filled with citizens of the place. At Leighton services were held in the school-house Sabbath and Sunday. The social meeting on the Sabbath was characterized by a good spirit, and quite a number of individuals not belonging to our denomination took part freely in the exercises, forgetting, for the time being, the differences in point of doctrine, and remembering only our unity in a common faith in Christ. On Sunday evening, at which time the closing meeting was held, the house was well filled with attentive listeners.

New York.

S. HARRISBURGH.—Elders Wilbur and Bump report: “We are having the best interest at this stage of our lectures that we have ever witnessed. We have a tent full of interested hearers many times through the week, and when it is good weather Sundays the tent will not hold half of the people that come to the beautiful grove where our tent is pitched. Some come from ten to fifteen miles to attend this meeting.

Iowa.

BENTONSPORT.—Elder McCoy closed his labors here June 16. He writes: “As the results of labor here thirty persons of this place and vicinity have covenanted together as Christian commandment-keepers, and have regular Sabbath meetings. We organized a Sabbath-school with thirty-five members. We had a baptism in Des Moines river on Sunday afternoon, when five were buried with their Lord. It was a solemn scene; some three hundred persons were present. We labored here continuously for nearly two months and the interest was good to the close.”

New Hampshire.

FRANCESTOWN.—The interest in the meetings here still continues. The average attendance is about one hundred and fifty. In a report June 18, it is stated that the Sunday previous the Sabbath question was presented. The tent was full in the afternoon and evening, and the subject was the theme of conversation for miles around. Many have acknowledged the claims of the Sabbath. Some have obeyed, others are hesitating, and more are investigating. Bibles are read as never before in this place.