Untitled article by Chas. Stratton

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, September 24, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 15

REPORT FROM BRO. STRATTON.

By Chas. Stratton

My last report was from Topsham, Aug. 8. Our next appointment was at Falmouth. Here our good Bro. and sister Barnes joined us. We held nine meetings, baptized four, organized a church of nine members, and broke bread to them. I was much pleased with this little church. Do not know of one of more promise that numbers so few.

On Sunday the congregation was large and attentive. Labor might be expended here with good results. The people in this place received their first light on the third angel's message from our dear Bro. Cornell, who makes so many mad, and some glad. May the Lord bless him in his arduous work.

Friday, Aug. 16, in Portland at our Monthly Meeting. On account of a severe storm we could not meet on Sabbath evening. The morning prayer-meeting was rather dry. We talked to them on the present duty of the church, the Reform with the rest. One good sister had been severely tried for some time about the Reform Dress. But on Sunday morning she confessed her wrongs and received a great blessing. Others took hold of the work in earnest. One came out on the Sabbath. These things added greatly to the interest of our meeting. The congregation increased till it was the largest we have had at a Monthly Meeting in that place. The Lord breathed new life and power into the church. We attended to the ordinances in the evening, and added two to the church. This church has been rent by many a storm in the past. I pray the Lord it may now be preserved till his coming.

CHAS. STRATTON.

Cornville, Me., Sept. 12.