Report from Bro. Taylor.
By C. O. Taylor
Nov. 10 and 11, I attended the Quarterly Meeting with the Champlain church. The meeting was in Perry's Mills, at the house of Bro. Whipple. All the large gatherings of this church are there. I had been with this dear people two or three Sabbaths in the month of October; was called there by sickness. Bro. and sister Whipple have been very near death the past season. The Lord has heard prayer; Bro. W. is well, and sister W. is fast recovering. They are trying to draw near to God. Sister Baker has suffered much by sickness. She, being afflicted, is drawing near to the Lord. The cause began to rise while we were with them. The lukewarm are aroused. The work moves steadily forward. Two were received into church fellowship. Called one day at Rouse's Point to visit my brother D. T. Taylor and family. May they yet have all the law of God written on their hearts, according to the new covenant. My mother is living with him; is in her eighty-third year. She has kept the Sabbath ten years; commenced when the counsel was first given to the Laodicean church. The counsel was attended with such a sweet, melting, confessing, spirit that it broke her heart. Left there on the evening of Nov. 21, by steamboat, for Whitehall. Waited two or three hours at W. for a team to take us to sister Foster's (previous arrangements having been made). She lives four miles out of the village. I had held a correspondence with her for two years, and now visit her and family for the first time. I found her firm and decided on the Sabbath-truth and many points of the third angel's message, all by reading the Review and books. The children, five in number, were favorable, too, and sympathized with the mother. The husband was more than half convinced that we as a people, had something that the other churches had not. We were much interested in all the family. I expect that at no distant day they will all be united in keeping the holy law of God, and in living out the teachings of Jesus, that they may be a light to others in that place. Went to Middle Grove and attended the Quarterly Meeting. Found some of the church doing well in spiritual things; others in trial. Two united in church fellowship. I hope they will all abide by the truth. I went some ten miles out into a new field and gave eight discourses. The interest to hear was good. The meetings increased in numbers. The last night, the house, a common district school-house, was uncomfortably full. I sold a few books, gave away some tracts, also two or three back Nos. of the Review. I trust a good work was begun. I reached home Dec. 11. Shall speak to the Adam's Center church next Sabbath, a privilege I have not enjoyed for more than six months, having been absent from them. My health is good. I thank my God daily for the Health Reform. Adam's Center, Dec., 1866.