LEAVING Battle Creek, August 17, the time till the 26th was spent by special invitation in attendance at the Convocation of Ministers and Assembly of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Baptists, at Niles and Alfred, New York. A hearty Christian welcome was accorded by ministers and people, in all their meetings and exercises; and the ten days were most enjoyably spent among those splendid Christian people; to all but about a half dozen of whom I was at first and by sight a total stranger, but by none of whom either at first or afterward was I in any wise treated as any other than a Christian brother.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 350.1

After the Conference adjourned, on the night of the 26th, I remained at Alfred over Sabbath, the 31st, the guest of Pastor and Mrs. L. C. Randolph, of the Alfred Church, preaching Thursday night the 29th and Sabbath, the 31st. Alfred is a beautiful place, and a town of excellent people; and my stay there was a real pleasure from beginning to end.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.1

Leaving Alfred the night after Sabbath, August 31, I went to Washington, D. C., where I spent two weeks in a tent-meeting with Brother Sheafe. Throughout the two weeks of meetings the attendance was good and the interest excellent; and both interest and attendance increased continually. The attendance was a thousand or more on Sunday nights, and from two hundred to three hundred on other nights. The meetings were to continue two weeks after I left there; so the results of the work during the tent season could not be reported. But it is certain that Brother Sheafe and his people have everything to encourage them in the work of the gospel message.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.2

From Washington I went to Newark, N. J., where for two weeks I helped Brother Franke in his tent-meeting, in that city. This happened to be just in the time of the equinoctial storms so that the attendance was not as large as otherwise it would well have been. Yet even under the disadvantages of the stormy time the attendance was well worth while and the interest was good.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.3

From Newark I went to New Haven, Conn.. Westerly and Providence, R. I., visiting friends of the truth, and preaching in Providence Sabbath and Sunday four times, October 5 and 6. From Providence I went, by invitation, to West Newton, Mass., where I preached is a Baptist Church twice on Sunday, October 12, and on Wednesday night, October 16; and held Bible studies in a private house on other nights, October 9-15.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.4

Sabbath, October 19, I preached at 11:00 A. M. in the Seventh-day Baptist church at Westerly, R. I., to the regular congregation of which Rev. W. L. Burdick is pastor, and at 3:00 P. M. in a hall in the same town to another assembly.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.5

Sunday night, October 20, I preached in a public hall in Irvington, N. J.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.6

In all these places the one general theme of the preaching was the deep and far-reaching meaning of current events, national and international, and the only preparation that can enable any to meet these things in the truest way for the best good of themselves or mankind in general for their best good, whether for this world or the world to come: Righteousness, and temperance in view of the judgment to come; individuality—each one to know God himself for himself, through personal faith in Jesus Christ, and led by the Spirit of God—as against the universal spirit of combine that characterizes the business, industrial, and religious world of today, by which all are brought under the domination of man, with the crushing out of all individuality, and the enforced worship according to the dictates of the creeds and councils of a religion utterly false. Thousands of people are asking themselves the meaning and tendency of all these things; and they are glad to have the answer from the Scriptures of truth, clear and plain. This is a wonderful time, and there are more wonderful things to tell concerning the time and the events of the time.MEDM October 30, 1907, page 352.7

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