Stowe, Vermont by Francis Gould

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1873

Stowe, Vermont.

By Francis Gould

Thinking that the brethren in Vermont would like to know what I have been doing in the past, I thought it might be duty to report through the REVIEW. Since receiving license last fall, I have been trying to do something for the cause of truth. During the past winter, I have been laboring in a district called the Forks, near the base of Mount Mansfield. It is comparatively a new place. The word presented from time to time has been crowned apparently with good success. Four have embraced the Sabbath; others are interested. I have been astonished, and also encouraged, to see how the people turned out to hear, in this cold and mountainous district, where it has snowed and drifted most every day so that the roads would be considered impassable on ordinary occasions.

There is a small church of no-law Adventists here. We have received some opposition from them, and the course which they have pursued has turned the minds of the people in our favor. The excellent influence of Bro. Harlow and wife, who have stood alone in the truth for years, has told favorably for the cause here, and it is a fact worthy of notice that our scattered brethren where they have lived out the truth, and exerted a good influence in the community where they reside, open the way so that when the truth is presented it will be easier reaching the minds of the people.

My design has been to seek out another new field of labor this spring; but I am now prostrated with the chronic rheumatism, a disease from which I have suffered much, years in the past. It has returned with renewed vigor. I am confined to my room. How long I shall be is quite uncertain. I earnestly desire the prayers of God's people that, if it be his will, I may be raised up to share some humble part in the work of the closing message.

FRANCIS GOULD.

April 20, 1873.