Tent Meeting in Green Vale by John Norton Loughborough, E. Everts, J. Hart

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1857

Tent Meeting in Green Vale.

By John Norton Loughborough, E. Everts, J. Hart

Our tent was pitched in this place and the meeting commenced as appointed in the Review. Our congregations were small compared with other meetings. A few seemed interested in the word spoken. Several furnished themselves with books desirous of still further investigation of the truth. A bitter tide of opposition was against us from without, not without cause. An inconsistent course had been pursued by some in the church which had caused the people of God to be "taken up in the mouths of talkers." Brother going to law with brother, and such like acts we understand meet their rebuke in the word of God. We felt it our duty to deal plainly with those who had been the cause of reproach. One confessed heartily, one withdrew, and one was set aside. We feel that it is too late for us to hear long justifications of self on those things that God's word speaks plainly against. We must deal plainly, yet in love, with those who err from the way. The Lord help us.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. E. EVERTS. J. HART