VISIT TO NEW MILFORD, CONN.
By J. S. Miller
On Monday morning, Aug. 3, I left West Cornwall, a village near Lakeville, where two families of the Lakeville company reside, and came to New Milford, a village of some fifteen hundred inhabitants, on the Housatonic Railroad, some thirty miles south of Lakeville. My visit to New Milford was in response to an invitation from a brother residing there, and with whom I became acquainted recently. The remainder of the week was spent in attending to business, and in calling on the inhabitants of the village and surrounding country, among whom I distributed a quantity of tracts. I spent the Sabbath, Aug. 8, in Bro. Gauson's sitting room, reading my Bible, and works on present truth. This was the first Sabbath that I have been denied the privilege of social worship in four months, and with the exception of a stormy Sabbath, the only one since I embraced the third message. I have never been prepared to appreciate the trials of the lone Sabbath-keepers. May the Lord help me to be charitable when I feel like censuring what may seem like backwardness in reform on their part. On first-day I met with the little company of Adventists, the most of whom I found were well informed on most points common to the Advent faith. But the time when they will all come in the unity of the faith is evidently not looked for by them this side of the resurrection, each having a view of his own, regardless of the body. There are now two Sabbath-keepers at New Milford, both of whom have recently embraced it, chiefly as the result of reading Bro. Andrews' little work on the sanctuary. Oh! that our brethren could realize the advantage of circulating these little silent preachers. Others are reading with some interest. These two brethren are tried veterans of '43, and their hearts were already in the work, and all that was needed was to have their heads set straight on the 2300 days, and the sanctuary, and they at once became Sabbath-keepers. They now stand alone, a target for scoffers of all classes. May the Lord help them to manifest that love that always characterizes the true child of God, in trying to live out, and teach to others, this new-found truth.