Note from Bro. Hutchins.
By A. S. Hutchins
BRO. SMITH: I have attended meeting every Sabbath since our State Conference. Have been able to preach, or bear a short testimony in each meeting. Six Sabbaths I have spent in Wolcott, two in Charleston, two in Stowe, at Johnson, Worcester, and Sutton, one each. Perhaps I may say, that in all of these meetings we have enjoyed some degree of the Spirit and blessing of the Lord. The meetings at Stowe were quite encouraging to me. It was the first time I had visited the church here since my return from the West. The brethren and sisters here have had some peculiar trials, and in some things have not moved perhaps as fast as they should. Yet we feel confident there exists an inquiring mind for duty. May they all cheerfully bear the cross and win the crown. Jesus is soon coming. Oh! may we be prepared to meet him, prepared to sit with him on his throne. Our meetings in this place, the last Sabbath of last year, and yesterday, we hope will by us all be remembered, with the good resolutions formed to live nearer to God in 1869 than in any previous year, if we are permitted to live. Yesterday I spoke to the children from Prov. iv, 1. May they with their parents be gathered to Mount Zion.