p. 222 | Chatham, Ontario

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1879

Chatham, Ontario.

Our tent meetings are creating great excitement in this city at present. Elder Battisby, D. D., Presbyterian minister, advertised to speak on the Christian Sabbath a week ago last Sunday. Our congregation all attended. We took notes, and announced a review for last Sunday at 3 P. M. He took several positions, in which he contradicted himself, and presented a very weak argument to sustain the Sunday Sabbath. The people turned out en masse to hear the review. The capacity of our tent was altogether insufficient for the accommodation of the crowd. The evening following the review, we spoke on the change of the Sabbath. Since then, have been speaking on the prophecies. Some have accepted the truth. One of these is a lady whose mother was a sister of Dr. Adam Clarke, she herself having been a missionary and public speaker for many years; and now in her old age she rejoices in the light of present truth.

She is an accomplished scholar in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages.

I will also mention another case, that of a young colored man, a fine classical scholar, who has been for two years a teacher in a university in Demarara, South America, and who has first-class letters of recommendation from men high in authority there. He left his home in South America to go to Toronto to take a medical course of study. While in Baltimore, Maryland, he was robbed of his money, and left destitute of means in a strange land. He had only his clothing and about $150 worth of books left. He came to this place, where he had some friends who were favorable to our views; he attended our meetings, and has accepted the truth. He is now anxious to attend our college at Battle Creek for a year, and learn more of the truth and the workings of the cause, and then return to South America and preach the third angel's message. He reads and speaks the French language, as well as all the dead languages. Have we not some brethren who will aid this young man in preparing himself for usefulness in the Master's cause? We request the prayers of God's people for the work in Ontario.

JOHN W. MOORE.

F. T. WALES.

July 1.