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of Christ and His willingness to save all who would come to Him.
Between three and four hundred children came out to the meetings
held on Sabbath and Sunday afternoons. The children behaved well,
and when they returned to their homes they told their parents about
the lessons they had learned. Some of these parents have received the
truth.
Tent meetings have been continued in Newcastle since the camp
meeting closed, and thirty-five have been converted and baptized.
Many more are interested. Wonderful conversions have been witnessed
among men who had not attended a religious meeting for years before
coming to the tent. Smokers and liquor drinkers have seen themselves
in the gospel mirror as transgressors of the law, and have in repentance
received Christ as their personal Saviour. The ministers are astonished,
for they see those who were smokers and beer drinkers no longer
smoking and drinking, but changed and converted. This to them seems
like a miracle.
A house has been hired for the ministers and their wives and those
whom they are educating to give Bible readings from house to house.
The people are invited to ask their friends and neighbors to these
meetings, and opportunity is given for them to ask questions on the
lessons given. These are occasions of deep interest. I have great
confidence in this method of labor. The workers who are hunting and
fishing for the souls of men and women labor hard from morning till
night. Often their appointments are not over till ten o’clock.
Work has now been begun in Wallsend, a suburb of Newcastle,
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ten miles from Newcastle, and in Maitland, a town twenty miles from
Newcastle. This is a large field, and we shall employ workers who will
give their whole time to the work. Elder Haskell and his wife are now
laboring in Newcastle. They have tact and skill, and teach the truth
both in public and from house to house. There will be other ministers
there besides Elder Haskell and the Bible readers. No less than twelve
workers are needed in this place, for it is a large field.
In the past I have appropriated means to sustain this kind of work,
but my fund is now exhausted, for in this field the calls have been
continual. Missionary work has been done in many cities.
The ministers’ wives join their husbands in this work, and accom-
plish that which their husbands could not possibly do. In order to do
the work, these sisters have to hire someone to do their housekeeping.