p. 270 | MEETINGS IN VERMONT by Francis Gould

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 8, 1868

MEETINGS IN VERMONT.

By Francis Gould

The brethren and sisters met in Quarterly Meeting at Stowe, Vt., Sabbath, Nov. 21. Elds. A. Stone and A. S. Hutchins were present to preach the word. In the forenoon Bro. Stone gave an appropriate and interesting discourse on the kingdom of God, showing what constitutes the kingdom. Those component parts were, 1. The King, the Lord Jesus Christ. 2. The territory, the kingdom under the whole heavens, the earth made new. 3. The subjects, those who live in obedience to God's requirements here, do his will, live out his blessed truth, and are fully prepared to be changed from mortal to immortality. 4. The nature of the

government, being one of peace, love, union, and rest, forever, in contrast with the governments of this world, which are anarchy, war, bloodshed, crime, and gross iniquity. This subject was calculated to inspire the brethren and sisters with new courage and new zeal to prosecute the work of overcoming by the power of God's truth, that they may finally hear the welcome, “Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

In the afternoon Bro. Hutchins gave an instructive discourse on the two laws, showing the object of the ceremonial law, and the origin and perpetuity of the moral law, and in his closing remarks showed the combination of the law and gospel in effecting the salvation of man by repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

The brethren and sisters filled up the time allotted to them in quick succession in bearing their testimony to the truths spoken, and were built up and strengthened in the most holy faith of the gospel. May the Lord help us to be spiritual worshipers, that we may be living stones in the temple of God.

FRANCIS GOULD.