p. 69 | The New York Tent by N. Fuller

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1863

The New York Tent.

By N. Fuller

BRO. WHITE: We closed our meetings at Wellsville July 6. We suffered much inconvenience during this meeting. The weather was very unfavorable—cold and wet much of the time, and nearly to the close. Bro. Andrews was taken sick at the commencement, and did not recover until nearly the close of the meeting. We sent for Bro. R. F. Cottrell, and he came at a late period in the meeting. Bro. Taylor did not come. Notwithstanding all these things, the Lord was with us by his Holy Spirit, and gave power and efficiency to the preached word.

We took an expression to see how many would keep all ten of God's commandments just as they come from the hand of God. Twelve who were not Sabbath-keepers arose. May God help them to carry that promise into effect, that when Jesus comes "they may have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city."

Also some of the S. D. Baptists have got their eyes open, we trust never again to be closed by blind leaders. May the Lord still work for others in that place, that we may soon see them rejoicing in present truth.

A Methodist minister preached a funeral discourse in the tent, in which (as he told me afterward) he gave the other side of the question in regard to entering upon our reward at death. Some of his friends afterward complained that he was not fairly represented when we reviewed some of his remarks. But we thought the friends of Jesus had great reason to complain that their blessed Master was grossly misrepresented on that funeral occasion, in statements like the following: speaking of the rich man, Luke xvi, 16, "Jesus said his soul was in hell," and several other statements as curious as the above.

A Baptist preacher (Eld. Brown) came to the tent, and gave a swift testimony of the time in which we live. He said that the signs of the Lord's coming were in the past, and we were now in the angry state of the nations—that time was very near its close—that a temporal millennium would never take place in this state of things. O, that such men could see the whole truth, and proclaim it without fear of what men might say of them.

We found many friends in that place; and our prayers shall be that God may open their hearts to receive his love and truth. A mark has been made there that neither time nor error can blot out. And yet many were as set against us that they would not come out to hear. It was so in the days of the Saviour. A proud, prejudiced church rejected him. Many of them would not hear, and he said unto them, "This is your condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men choose darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil." They can choose darkness if they will.

We pitched the tent in this place July 10. Those who look, every one for his gain from his own quarter, say to their flocks, "Stay at home." What the result of this meeting will be, the Lord only knows. May God save the honest.

N. FULLER.

Alfred Center, N. Y.