Dorchester Vision of 1848 and Our First Publishing Ventures
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We soon received urgent invitations to hold conferences in different
States, and decided to attend general gatherings at Boston, Mass.;
Rocky Hill, Conn.; Camden and West Milton, N. Y. These were all
meetings of labor, but very profitable to our scattered brethren.
At Saratoga Springs, New York—We tarried at Ballston Spa a
number of weeks, until we became settled in regard to publishing at
Saratoga Springs. Then we rented a house and sent for Brother and
Sister Stephen Belden and Sister Bonfoey, who was then in Maine
taking care of little Edson, and with borrowed household stuff began
housekeeping. Here my husband published the second volume of the
Advent Review and Sabbath Herald.
Sister Annie Smith, who now sleeps in Jesus, came to live with us
and assist in the work. Her help was needed. My husband expressed
his feelings at this time in a letter to Brother Howland, dated Febru-
ary 20, 1852, as follows: “We are unusually well, all but myself. I
cannot long endure the labors of traveling and the care of publishing.
Wednesday night we worked until two o’clock in the morning, folding
and wrapping No. 12 of the Review and Herald; then I retired and
coughed till daylight. Pray for me. The cause is prospering gloriously.
Perhaps the Lord will not have need of me longer, and will let me rest
in the grave. I hope to be free from the paper. I have stood by it in
extreme adversity; and now when its friends are many, I feel free to
leave it, if someone can be found who will take it. I hope my way will
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be made clear. May the Lord direct.”
Facing Adversity in Rochester [
James White gave the follow-
ing reasons why he felt the paper should no longer be printed at the
commercial printing office in Saratoga Springs, New York:
“1. It is not convenient to print such a paper at a suitable printing-
office, and have the work put by on the seventh day, and it is very
unpleasant to us, as well as inconvenient, to have the work done on the
Sabbath.
“2. If a small office was owned by the brethren, the paper could
be printed in such an office for about three fourths of what others can
afford to do it for us in large printing establishments.
“3. We think that hands can be obtained who are keeping the
Sabbath who would take an interest in the paper that cannot be expected
of others. In this case, much care would be taken from the one that
had charge of it.”—
The Review and Herald, March 2, 1852
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