As our season of Tent-meetings is over, it may not be uninteresting to the readers of the Review to learn something of the result of our labors.
Our last Tent-meeting was held in Mill Grove. Some interest was manifest, and we trust the effort will not be lost, but that some good may result. We became more than ever satisfied at this meeting that our plan of operating with the Tent must be changed, and that new fields can be labored in to better advantage than to strive to reach the hearts of those who, "having ears hear not."
After our meeting closed at Mill Grove, we visited the Brn. at Olcott. According to appointment, met70with them Sept., 31st. Found that four had come out firm and decided on the truth since the Tent-meeting, and that others were almost persuaded to obey God rather than man.
Since returning home I have received letters from Van Buren and Roosevelt, stating that the effort in those places had not been vain. Eleven had embraced the Sabbath in Van Buren, and some four or five in Roosevelt. We feel encouraged still to strive to go forward, and spend our energies in getting the truth before the people. The efforts to spread the truth will be owned and blessed of God if we discharge our duties in his fear, and look to him confidently expecting the seed to be watered by him.
As I have before stated, it seems that the plan for operating with the Tent another season must be to go into new fields; but to accomplish much in this way, some measures must be taken to have those whose duty it may be to labor with the Tent, free from embarrassment. Will it not be well to do something in this matter soon? I have already mentioned it to some, and they seem inclined to take hold of the work.
Would it not be proper to hold a conference at Oswego or Roosevelt, in which the Brn. in Central N. Y. may have an opportunity to take some measures to make provision for Tent operations another season. Will the Brn. at Oswego and Roosevelt write me soon at Rochester, N. Y., concerning the most proper place for such a conference to be held.