MAINE by Samuel J. Hersum

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

MAINE

By Samuel J. Hersum

Linneus, Aroostook Co., March 5.—After my report of Feb. 20, I continued to hold meetings with Bro. Goodrich in Washburn and Maysville, until Feb. 27, when I left Bro. G. at Washburn, and went to fill an appointment for a meeting in a lumbermen’s camp in Township No. 7, Aroostook Co., about fifty miles from Washburn. Sr. Dunbar, who lives about one and a half miles from this camp, had circulated among the men some reading matter on different subjects of present truth, and had become anxious that they might hear more upon the subject of the Sabbath and the law. I held three meetings. Between fifty and sixty were present at our Sunday-afternoon meeting, and between forty and fifty at each evening meeting. The men were mostly from the Province of New Brunswick. I never had a more attentive audience. I received a donation of $6, and a strong invitation from the head man of the camp to visit him at Frederickton, N. B. As I stood in front of the stand which the men had prepared for the occasion, with a large camp-fire burning before me, I felt that the Spirit of God was present; and the thought that this might be the last time I should ever speak to these men, and the only privilege that some of them would ever have of listening to the truth, was a solemn one; my soul was moved for them.

Some wanted to hear further,—wanted to hear on the Judgment and other truths connected with this message. May these men obey the truth, and be saved in the everlasting kingdom. SAMUEL J. HERSUM.