Report from the Mich. Tent by Dudley Marvin Canright; I. D. Van Horn

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 25, 1865

Report from the Mich. Tent.

By Dudley Marvin Canright; I. D. Van Horn

SUNDAY, July 16, we closed our meetings in Vassar. We have been here six weeks, and have given fifty-four discourses. About the middle of the meetings, when the interest was the best, and we had the most important testimonies to give, it began to rain. Hardly a day has passed since without more or less rain. This interrupted the meetings and damped the interest very much.

The Presbyterians have a strong hold here, and have done their utmost against the truth. But the "common people" have listened with deep interest to the word of God, and the result is that about forty have embraced the truth, and are now keeping the Sabbath.

Last Sabbath we had a good meeting with these friends. Twenty cheering testimonies were given. Many of these brethren and sisters are starting to serve the Lord for the first time. They are sober, thinking people, whom the popular religion could never reach.

We think that a good work has been commenced here, which will be to the glory of God and the salvation of many precious souls. Although circumstances have been against us, yet the Lord has been with us, and has given success to the truth, for which we feel to praise his name. We are encouraged to labor on, firmly believing that this is the Lord's work, and that it will triumph in the end. We have sold $53 worth of books, and have obtained twelve subscribers for the Review.

To-day we move to Watrousville, eight miles northeast of this place. Our P. O. address will be Vassar, Tuscola Co., as before. D. M. CANRIGHT. I. D. VAN HORN.