Meetings in Brunswick by WM. GATCHELL

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 7, 1869

Meetings in Brunswick

By WM. GATCHELL

From Bro. Gatchell.

As I have not seen any report of our meetings in Brunswick for a long time, I have come to the conclusion to write a few lines for the purpose of informing the brethren and sisters abroad how we are moving along in this place. When Bro. Barnes came here, he thought it advisable for us to have Quarterly Meetings. So he appointed the last Sabbath and first-day, the 26th and 27th of June, for that purpose. When the time came, we met together, on the Sabbath, and had a profitable and interesting time in rehearsing the merciful dealings of God with us, and in speaking of our present experience in the divine life, and of our hopes and fears, &c. In the evening after the Sabbath, several met at the house of Bro. Howland, for the purpose of attending to the ordinances, and we had a very solemn and blessed season. The blessing of the Lord rested down upon us, and we felt the influences of his Spirit moving upon our hearts. Indeed, all our meetings were interesting. Two gave in their names to join, some days before the meeting. One was present, and taken in; the other was absent, and his reception was deferred.

Sabbath and first-day, July 3 and 4, our Monthly Meeting came off, according to appointment. Sabbath morning our social meeting commenced well, but owing to something that was said, foreign to the general tenor of the meeting, it was not so interesting as it otherwise might have been. During the day we had three very good discourses.

First-day we came together again for social meeting, and all seemed to be of one heart, and of one mind, all speaking of the same things. Truly we had a blessed season, and most of us could say of a truth that it was good for us to be there.

Quite a delegation was present from Falmouth, and elsewhere, who gave us some heart-cheering testimonies. Then Bro. Barnes gave two solemn and impressive discourses on the prophecies. It was a solemn and impressive theme to dwell upon, yet it was cheering to the hearts of the patient, waiting ones, who are striving to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and overcome every obstacle, so as to gain the victory at last, through our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

From your unworthy brother in the bonds of Christ, WM. GATCHELL. Cumberland Co., Maine.