Vermont Camp-Meeting

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1870

Vermont Camp-Meeting.

A FRIEND has handed us the Franklin Journal, published at Swanton, Vt., in which we find the following notice of the late Vermont Camp-meeting of S. D. Adventists.

BORDOVILLE, VT., AUG. 23, 1870.

Mr. Editor:—The Seventh day Adventists have just closed a very well-conducted and successful camp-meeting in this place, the first this denomination has ever held in this State. Elder James White and his wife, Mrs. Ellen G. White, were the principal speakers, though some eight or ten more of the ministry of this order were present. The attendance on Sunday numbered between three and four thousand, and the order and decorum preserved on the ground from first to last, was excellent. The peculiarities of the sect are the observance of the seventh day of the week as the Lord's true Sabbath, and a belief in the speedy, personal coming of our blessed Redeemer to reign forever on the restored earth. They fix no dates for the consummation. We witnessed no fanaticism on the ground; on the contrary, the social meetings were sincere, tender, and melting, and a happy circumstance on Saturday and Monday when some sixty persons, old and young, on invitation, presented themselves at the mourners' altar for prayers, many of whom spoke of their new resolutions and desires with deep emotion, and some found joy and peace.

The Seventh-day Vermont Conference numbers eight ministers, embraces some ten or twelve churches, with a membership of several hundred souls. They have a church of nearly one hundred, and a pleasant church edifice, here.