TO THE CHURCHES IN VERMONT.
By A. S. Hutchins
As a privilege next to attending with you some of the soon-coming quarterly meetings, I hope to learn from each church clerk, soon after the meetings, their spiritual interest and missionary results. Please inform me on these points:— 1. Is your church making sufficient advancement in spiritual life to manifest it in an increase of zeal and activity in the missionary work? 2. Have you any suggestions to offer as to the place of tent-meetings or camp-meeting for the ensuing season? Allow me to express the hope that dues on tithes and to the tract and missionary society may all be paid at the quarterly meetings. Also that every Sabbath-keeping family in the State be encouraged to take the REVIEW and Good Health, and other periodicals from our publishing houses if possible. The directors, librarians, and elders of our churches, should all feel a solemn obligation resting upon them to faithfully look after this branch of the work. I hope arrangements will be made at the meetings referred to to look after all the churches and scattered members with reference to this matter. We must wake up to the important duties of the present hour. The time has fully come when we should be able to say, in truth, in humility, and in gratitude to God: “I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out.” Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich. A. S. HUTCHINS.