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THE WORK IN MAINE

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 21.

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THE WORK IN MAINE.

By CHAS. STRATTON.

Since my last report, I have been attending Monthly Meetings and laboring with the different churches in Maine. Our Meetings are interesting. Every week some new ones are brought into the truth. In Clinton and Canaan there have been Sabbath meetings and Sabbath Schools established within a few months, and S. B. in Clinton. Bro. Barnes has been laboring with good success in both places. Our prospects in Maine are good, if we can only have enough of the help of the Lord.
Our brethren and sisters are becoming more spiritual as the truth works down out of their heads into their hearts. Many professors of religion, if their heads were taken off, their religion would be gone, and they lost. We want to be certain that we are united to Christ, the living vine; then when Christ who is our life shall appear we shall also appear with him in glory.
Our dear Bro. Goodrich has returned home and has taken hold with us to labor systematically, and I trust effectually, in the cause. I am satisfied that there are others in Maine that must take hold of this work. My prayer is that God may thrust them into his vineyard. The fields are all white ready for the harvest, and he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
My heart is often made glad to know that the Lord will have the wheat gathered in. If one will not help, another will, and the field will be reaped, and the Lord of the harvest will reward the faithful laborers as they come bringing their sheaves with them. Thank God! They that sow in tears shall reap in joy!
The Judgment is here. The Master soon will be here and say, Well done, good and faithful servants, enter into the joy of thy Lord. The New Jerusalem's gates will open, and the righteous nation will enter in. Bless the Lord!
CHAS. STRATTON.
Cornville, Me., April 18, 1867.