Quarterly Meeting at Pilot Grove, Iowa.
By Henry Nicola
We have been greatly cheered and encouraged by another good Quarterly Meeting that has just closed here, at Pilot Grove. A number of us met according to appointment, Sabbath evening, and had a free, good prayer-meeting. Sabbath morning, the brethren and sisters from Washington, and nearly all the members of this church, assembled at an early hour for worship. As we had no minister present, the two days, Sabbath and first-day, were spent in prayer and social meeting, dividing the time so that all had a chance to take part in the worship. The burden of our prayers was not merely that we might better understand the theory of the truth, but that we might be able to make a right application of what we already see, to our own hearts. And while we tried to consider the near relation we sustain to our God, and to each other, many of us were brought to see our lack here. Many hearty confessions were made, and new resolutions formed; and when we came to wash each other's feet, and to commune at the Lord's table, which was at the close of our meeting, we felt that the Lord was truly in our midst by his Spirit, drawing us near to him and to each other.