Untitled article by A. C. BOURDEAU

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 21, 1868

MEETING AT WEST ENOSBURGH, VT.

By A. C. BOURDEAU

A word about our meeting held in this place last Sabbath, the 11th inst., I think, will not be out of place. The expectations that we had entertained about having a good time, were fully met. The brethren, as usual, were quite punctual in coming to the house of worship in good season for the meeting. Several of the neighbors and friends also attended.

In the morning, I spoke one hour and a quarter on a subject as indicated by the following words: “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment.” Gen. xviii, 19.

My brother followed about thirty minutes on the same subject with affecting and stirring remarks to parents and children. Then we invited the young and others who expected to be baptized that day to speak, and several cheering testimonies were given, which affected even some of those without that were present.

In the afternoon we went down to the branch, near Bro. A. A. Cross' house, where eighteen were buried in baptism. Here I experienced for the first time the convenience of wearing a rubber baptizing suit in administering this ordinance. Thirteen of those who were baptized became members of the Enosburgh church, making in all twenty accessions to this church during the past three weeks.

We shall spend next Sabbath with the church in this place, after which my brother and myself intend to spend a short time in visiting our old friends at the Grand Ligne Mission in Canada East, and a few families of French Sabbath-keepers in Northern New York.

A. C. BOURDEAU.

West Enosburgh, Vt., Jan. 14, 1868.