Tent Meetings at Kendall's Mills, Maine by M. E. Cornell, D. T. Bourdeau

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Aug 2, 1864

Tent Meetings at Kendall's Mills, Maine.

By M. E. Cornell, D. T. Bourdeau

Our meetings in this place closed last evening. We have remained here two weeks and have given twenty lectures. The results are as follows: Fifteen have come out on the truth, and as many more are deeply convicted. Nineteen have subscribed for the Review, and we have sold about $15 worth of books. Our congregations were not large, but manifested an increasing interest till the close. We have never seen the people receive the truth more readily. Truly the Lord is at work in the East, and is preparing the people to receive the message.

Last Sabbath we held three meetings under the tent, and had an interesting social meeting in which a goodly number took a part, expressing their gratitude to God for the truth. Some of the Advent brethren remarked that they had felt a lack for sometime, and that the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus were the very thing they needed to separate them from the world and prepare them for the coming of Christ. They rejoiced to see those for whom they had felt an interest break the shackles that bound them and take a stand for the truth. Among these was a Methodist class-leader. Six or seven offices that his brethren had conferred upon him could not hold him back.

We have two or three places in view to hold meetings, but have not as yet decided where to go. By request of the brethren we stop here to-day to rest and consult with regard to our next move.

Believing that the Lord of hosts is in this work, and that we are remembered by those who labor for and are interested in the prosperity of the cause, we will move out trusting in God, and looking forward to the recompense of reward.

M. E. CORNELL, D. T. BOURDEAU.

July 25, 1864.