VISIT TO PLEASANTVILLE, N. Y.
By J. S. MILLER
Ever since the closing of the Grove Meeting at Pleasantville, in September last, I have had a desire to return and see the dear Christians with whom I then became acquainted, and the same desire has often been expressed in letters from those living at that place. I recently saw my way clear to do so, and on the 30th of June I arrived there. As the result of the Grove Meeting and a course of lectures subsequently delivered by Bro. Rodman, a company of a dozen or more, in various stages of development, has been raised up. I received a hearty welcome from them; remained with them over one Sabbath, and attended six meetings, besides accompanying Bro. Wild and a number of others on first-day, July 5, to a school-house some six miles south of Pleasantville, where Bro. W. had an appointment. I found a scattering influence at work, which brought me into trial from the moment that I arrived there. Bro. Wild seemed fully awake to the danger to which his flock was exposed, and was doing all in his power to keep them together. As our meetings progressed, a desire to get right before the Lord seemed to increase, and on the last evening on which I met with them, a spirit of humble confession prevailed, and every member present acknowledged themselves more or less in the wrong. May the Lord help them all to forsake as well as to confess, and if they do so they may yet become a precious light, like a city that is set on a hill, and receive the rich blessing of the Spirit of the Lord. On sixth-day, July 10, in company with Bro. Wild, I left Pleasantville to meet a little company of Sabbath-keepers some seventy miles north, in Salisbury, Conn.