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TENT MEETINGS IN MICH

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 17, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 3.

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TENT MEETINGS IN MICH.

By John Norton Loughborough; Moses Hull

Bro. White: We presume you are anxious to hear from our meetings here, so we will write a few words this morning. We got to this place just in time to advertise in one of the county papers—"The Republican,"—the other had gone to press. This feature of advertising in the county papers we think will wonderfully add to the interest of tent meetings, especially in the fore part of a meeting. If we put our faith "into a nut shell," probably but few would look after it. If we act as though we had a message which we wanted the world to hear, they certainly will be induced to come if for no more than curiosity at first. Curiosity often leads to interest.
We pitched our tent according to appointment. The first evening we had a congregation of two hundred; the next evening four hundred; the next evening six hundred; the next eight hundred. Monday evening—which is generally the poorest night in a week for meetings,—we had between six and seven hundred; last night eight hundred again. Several loads of people come four or five miles every night, after working hard all day. The people give almost breathless attention. Although the tent has been up but five days, we have already sold over $7,00 worth of books. We cannot of course tell the result, but hope to have the prayers of the brethren, that we may preach the word aright, and that the blessing of the Lord may be with us. We will close by giving the following extract that appeared in the yesterday's issue of the Eaton County Argus:
"Tent Meetings are being held in our village by Elds. Loughborough and Hull of the Second Advent persuasion, from Battle Creek. They are largely attended and a good deal of interest is manifested by the hearers. We heard there one of the best exposures of modern Spiritualism on Sunday last we have ever heard or read. Evening meetings are announced to continue through the present week."
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, MOSES HULL.