South Huntington, Vermont.
By A. C. Bourdeau
We have now been in this place over six Sundays, and have held at the rate of eight or nine meetings a week. Frosty nights and rainy weather made it necessary for us to take down our tent the fourth week. The month of September was uncommonly cold, the mountains near us being whitened with snow before the middle of that month. Such a great change was felt more than the coldest winter weather would be when we are prepared for it, and lessened the interest for a while. When the Sabbath question had been thoroughly canvassed, the people desired to hear on the other side before deciding, which they had the privilege of doing last Thursday, when Eld. Frost, a Freewill Baptist preacher from Jonesville, Vt., and formerly connected with a Freewill Baptist seminary in Waterbury, Vt., gave them two discourses against our views and in favor of the first day. These discourses were reviewed with liberty before a large audience the next evening. Three precious souls have decided to keep the Sabbath, and others are under deep conviction. This is encouraging to Bro. Dany and family who live three miles off and have been very punctual in attending our meetings. We cannot leave this section for four weeks to come. If we did, we should lose much. We are very loth to leave this valley before raising a church to establish a quarterly meeting, and form a connection between Jericho, Bolton, and Bristol; therefore we have commenced a series of meetings in a school-house four miles and a half from this village and on the way to Bristol; and from thence we go four miles further, to Jerusalem, in the town of Starksborough and in the same direction. We labor in sweet harmony with Elder A. S. Hutchins. Bro. Evans thinks of moving to Jerusalem. The Lord help us all to find our proper place, and labor with all our might for the furtherance of the truth and the salvation of souls. A. C. BOURDEAU.
South Huntington, Vt., Oct. 16, 1871.