DEAR BRO. WHITE:—As I am writing, I would say for the encouragement of the saints scattered abroad, that the Lord is still very merciful to his children in Vermont. I have been holding meetings (a part of the time in company with Bro. Sperry) for several weeks past, in different parts of the State. There is evidently an increasing interest to hear the evidences of our position. Some have recently become obedient to the faith; and new fields are opening for the spread of the last message of mercy.
The Tent-meetings held here in the Summer and Fall, it is quite certain, did very much to break down and remove prejudice against the truth.
The Review and the books and tracts vindicating the cause of present truth, circulated by the brethren and friends of the cause, are evidently doing a good work. By reading the arguments in defense of our faith, the mind of the reader has been opened to conviction; and thus the way has been prepared for the preaching of the last solemn message of mercy to this world.
I am deeply anxious that the friends of this blessed, cheering message, should do all in their power to spread these publications where they can benefit the anxious inquirer for truth.
Our meeting of two days in this place has just closed. We feel encouraged and strengthened from this interview enjoyed together.
Yours in hope, A. S. HUTCHINS.
Johnson, Vt., Dec. 11th, 1854.
P. S. The Review and Herald I have read with deep interest from the very first day after embracing the message of the third angel; and I expect to feel no less interest in reading and circulating it, than at present, as long as it continues to publish the truths that it now does.
I would further add, that if the publishers of the so-called “Messenger of Truth” flatter themselves that they are giving “meat in due season” to the Lord’s household, that I think they are sadly mistaken; for the matter in that paper, in my humble opinion, is “like the chaff which the wind driveth away.” “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”