Report from Bro. D. T. Bourdeau.
By D. T. Bourdeau
SINCE the Vermont camp-meeting, I have spent two Sabbaths at Berkshire, and one at Richford, and have visited some with my brother in Montgomery. The first Sabbath I spent at Berkshire, I unexpectedly met with Bro. Ertzenberger, who spoke in the afternoon, and I in the forenoon. The Lord helped, and a good measure of his blessing was realized in the social meeting to encourage us in our efforts to draw nearer the Lord. We pleasantly, and we trust profitably, spent week ago last Sabbath and Sunday at Berkshire, with Bro. C. O., and D. T. Taylor. Bro. C. O. Taylor occupied119most of the time on the Sabbath in dwelling on practical subjects. Our social meetings were good. Bro. D. T. Taylor's testimonies were appreciated. Eld. Hatch, the Congregationalist preacher from East Berkshire, was also present and took part in the social meeting in the afternoon. On Sunday, Eld. D. T. Taylor spoke in Eld. Hatch's chapel at East Berkshire on the designs of God, and on the signs of Christ's coming. The subjects were well treated, and listened to with interest. We were called to East Richford last Sabbath by the death of Mr. Charles C. Dow, occasioned by a fall from the roof of a house on which he was working, this accident happening last Tuesday. He fell on his head, yet lived in a state of consciousness until last Friday morning, though his body and limbs were senseless, for he had no feeling below his neck. He was not a professor, and regretted that he had not served the Lord. He prayed the Lord to forgive him his sins, and asked the brethren to pray for him. His wife is a member of the Richford church, and is very feeble. May God comfort and sustain her and her two sons in their affliction. I preached the funeral sermon yesterday (Sunday) to a crowded house, about fifty standing without, for want of room in the house. The camp-meeting and reports of it in English and French journals, written by my brother and others, have left a good impression in these parts of Vermont and in Canada. We mean to follow up the interest, and to extend the boundaries of the work. Bordoville, Vt., Sept. 12, 1870.