DEAR BRO. WHITE:—We have now closed our third meeting in Me. We commenced in Brewer, some two miles from the city of Bangor, June 15th, and continued to the evening of the 17th, according to appointment in the Review. Our meetings were thin, but peaceable until the first day of the week. In the afternoon it was judged that we could not accommodate more than half that came. Many of the young men and boys soon began to manifest a disorderly spirit. They seemed for a while to disregard the earnest entreaties of our brethren, to cease their loud talking and singing, that the meeting might be conducted with order and propriety. Some of their fellow-citizens interposed their authority also. But after all there was at times a manifest unwillingness, especially with the big boys, to lose such a good opportunity as they then seemed to have, of showing the faculty and judgment of their parents in training up children in the way they will go, in these last days. 2 Tim. iii, 2. Many that were present seemed very anxious to hear, and with ourselves were at times much annoyed by their disorderly conduct. At 6 P. M., we came together again and enjoyed a quiet waiting before the Lord. I hope our labor was not all in vain in Brewer. I trust the brethren and sisters who labored so unceasingly to have the sacred truths of God spread out before their neighbors and friends, will not lose their reward.
Our next meeting was in Canaan, 40 miles from Bangor. On our way there we passed through Palmyra, and called on your aged father and mother. They pressed me to tarry longer, and seemed much disappointed when I told them I could not stop long enough for them to prepare a supper for me. They were expecting to see you during the season.
Our Tent was erected in Bro. Robert Barnes' front yard, a very pleasant and quiet place. On First-day our congregation numbered about 500. They listened attentively, and many acknowledged the Sabbath of the Bible. A lawyer from Palmyra, while listening to a discourse on the Sabbath, said to one of our Brn. near him, you have the truth on that subject. The church was refreshed and much cheered, especially so, to see their neighbors and friends come up to the meeting to hear for themselves. The church in C. have been passing through a series of trials which will ultimately prove for their good if they hold fast their confidence in God.
Our third meeting which closed last evening was held in Brunswick, some 70 miles from Canaan. One of the citizens gave the Brn. permission to erect the Tent on his building lot in the town. Thus it stood undisturbed. The towns of Brunswick and Topsham are so contiguous that we held our prayer-meetings (with one exception) in the latter at Bro. S. Howland's, and then passed over the river to the preaching meetings in the latter. The people at first came rather cautiously, but increased in numbers and interest to the close, and listened with attention, and we trust to some profit. A number of the church were here from Portland. They with the brethren and sisters here were strengthened and much encouraged to continue their efforts to help spread the precious truths of God, designed for these last days. Many pressed around the stand to examine our books, quite a number were furnished with them, which enables them to continue to investigate and learn our position in the third angel's message.
Bro. Barr has gone on with the Tent to erect it on Paris Hill, for our next, and probably last meeting for the present in Me. We thank and praise God for his unceasing care, and kind protection he still manifests for his church and people, and restraining the powers that be, until the 144,000 are sealed with the seal of the living God.