Vermont by N. Orcutt

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 24, 1871

Vermont.

By N. Orcutt

SINCE my last report through the REVIEW, written about Aug. 1, I with my companion have had the privilege of attending our excellent camp-meeting. We look back to it as an oasis in the desert, a privilege long to be remembered, and which, unless we prove recreant to our trust, will prove the beginning of better days for the cause in Vermont.

The Sabbath and Sunday following, Aug. 26 and 27, I met with the church at East Richford. Sabbath, Sept. 2, I spent with the church of Irasburgh and Charleston, at Bro. H. W. Barrows, near Barton Landing. Here we were cheered by the presence and testimonies of some who from a backslidden state, set out at our good camp-meeting to keep all the commandments of God. Some came seventeen miles, Sabbath morning, to the meeting. We trust they will be faithful, lean upon the almighty arm and that ultimately we may meet them upon Mount Zion.

Sabbath, Sept. 9, met with a few at Bro. Camps in Williamstown. One who had given up the truth started anew in the service of God.

Last Sabbath and first-day, was with the church at Andover. Baptized three, and four united with the church, making their present number eleven. We enjoyed a sweet season in attending to the ordinances of the Lord's house the evening after the Sabbath. It was never my lot to experience more sensibly the blessing of the Lord than on that occasion. The next evening, at the school-house near Bro. Pierce's, a good congregation paid the best attention to the word spoken.

This little body of believers feel greatly encouraged, as the Lord permits them to see the fruits of their labors. Long they have prayed and hoped; and the prayer of faith, accompanied by obedience, never ascends to the courts of Heaven in vain. May peace and the blessing of God abide with them.

If the same degree of love, harmony, zeal, and union, that prevails among them, characterized other bodies of believers in this or any other Conference, we should see more of prosperity attend the efforts put forth to advance the interests of the cause.

Have spoken once in the Methodist house at Bondville, and spent one first-day at Stratton Center, a new field. The balance of time, not reported above, has been spent with the church in Jamaica.

N. ORCUTT.

Jamaica, Vt. Oct. 12, 1871.