WHEELOCK, VT by A. S. HUTCHINS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 3, 1876

WHEELOCK, VT.

By A. S. HUTCHINS

Had very profitable meetings with the brethren from Sutton and this place on Sabbath, July 15. Five were taken under the watch-care of the Sutton church. I expect to baptize some here soon. These friends cheerfully entered their names on

One of them informed me that he had used in one year in the past fifty-two pounds of tobacco, at an expense of twenty-six dollars. He now resolves that this waste of means, abuse of his physical and mental powers, and dishonor of God, shall cease.

A man bore the following testimony in a meeting recently: “I am over eighty years of age. I have been a hard drinker. I drank rum, cider, beer, tea, coffee, and used tobacco, till I was sixty years old; but for more than twenty years I have not touched them.”

We say emphatically, This was victory. Yet this man had no hope in God. And shall not Christians have the victory over habits so prejudicial to their happiness?

A. S. HUTCHINS.

July 23, 1876.