Your ShelfYour Projects

VERMONT

20%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 20, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 12.

Read the full edition

VERMONT

By C. W. Stone

South Troy, March 13.—I have been holding meetings in this place since Feb. 1. The interest has been very good from the first, and at present fifteen have embraced the Sabbath of the Lord. We have held two Sabbath meetings. At the last about twenty were present, and seventeen bore testimony. It was a good season.
There were four or five persons keeping the Sabbath here before our meetings commenced. It was observed for a number of years by Sister Sisco and her daughter alone. Sister Sisco died about a year and a half ago, leaving six sons and this daughter. She was a faithful Christian. It was her custom to take her sons to her room and pray with them when they came home to see her. And at night, wherever they were, they knew that their mother prayed for them, calling each by name. Since her death, five of these sons have begun a praying life under the labors of first-day Adventist preachers. Now all five of them are rejoicing in the truth of the third angel’s message with their sister, who has waited long, and offered many fervent prayers that this time might come. The most affecting season of prayer we have enjoyed for a long time was with these five brothers and two of their companions, who happened to be together at the house of one of them a few days ago. The last two had just decided to obey. And as we bowed in prayer, and all engaged, confessing their sins and thanking the Lord for the light of truth, the blessing of God was present in great measure.
Opposition has come in the low line of smut and slander. A no-law-advocate, who had been elder of the Adventists here for a long time, is busy peddling scurrilous books, and creating all the prejudice he can in that manner. The Methodist minister received this man’s story, and repeated it to several. I called on him and told him that it was false, and blamed him for circulating so vile a scandal. I asked him to state as publicly that he had been informed that this story was false. He did so. It has gone so far that I shall take an evening to examine the book referred to, and to show the falsity of its statements before the public.
C. W. STONE.