Sabbath Discussion in Vermont
By Albert Stone
JULY 1 and 2, I was present at a discussion of the Sabbath question, between Bro. D. T. Evans and a first-day Adventist preacher, at the Union meeting house in Warren, Vt. Quite an interest was manifested by the community, which reached to the adjoining town of Granville, from which many came to hear. The preacher, as usual with those of his class, took the ground that the law of the ten commandments written on the tables of stone by the finger of God, was but a part of the law of types and ceremonies, and shared the same fate, by being nailed to the cross, and is not obligatory under the Christian dispensation. I think the result of the discussion will be to advance the truth. The following Sabbath and first-day, held meetings with Bro. Evans in Granville, where some interest is manifest, and about forty persons came to hear. Some wept, being convicted of the truth. Bro. Evans is laboring there part of the time. Our meetings with the churches in Vermont are good and refreshing, without exception; yet we earnestly hope the time may soon come, when this State will become the theater of a more powerful baptism of the Spirit; when tradition and prejudice will yield to the convictions of truth, and the pent-up streams of salvation will flow through the land.
ALBERT STONE.