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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 17.

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MEETINGS IN N. Y.

By C. W. Sperry

Bro. Smith. After Brn. Andrews and Cottrell left Pompey, I tarried and had another meeting, and attended to the ordinance of baptism. I found others here decided to keep the Sabbath. I returned to Kirkville and spent the Sabbath, gave two discourses, after which twenty testimonies were given. We then went out by the river-side on the Sabbath-day, where several were baptized, and I expect more will soon follow. The truth is still spreading in that region, and more meetings are wanted.
I wish to say that the meetings in that place which were held in the tent, reminded me of the interest in the first message in 1842. We counted thirty wagons or more, around the tent, night after night, and one man came from the village with his ox team about every evening, preparing his wagon to accommodate twenty or more, which was well filled most of the time. All was quiet throughout the entire meeting. To see from two hundred to eight hundred listen so attentively to the reasons of our faith, greatly encouraged us. From fifteen to twenty dollars' worth of books were purchased, and after examining for themselves the reports are, it is truth, many wishing the tent to come back. Some of those who have embraced the truth own a share in the Union meeting-house. They occupy it on the Sabbath, a very convenient place to worship. The brethren request that Bro. White come into this State this fall. Be sure to appoint a meeting in Kirkville.
Being sick myself, I tarried over another Sabbath, and found that efforts were being made to secure help from a distance, as their present help was not successful; for they only cry false teachers and false prophets until they have driven people from their congregation. May the Lord help the brethren in Kirkville and vicinity to be unmovable, and keep the standard of truth so raised that others may see their good works and be led to join with them and be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. C. W. SPERRY.