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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 15.

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D. T. BOURDEAU

By D. T. Bourdeau

Vermont.

Since my return to Bristol, I have held twelve meetings at Bristol Flatts, six at New Haven Mills, and twenty-four at North Middlebury. Three more have been added to the organization, and and three have embraced the truth within the past week. A week ago last Sunday at the close of a discourse on conversion, my brother called for all who believed we had the truth on the Sabbath question to arise, and all the congregation but two or three were on their feet at once. Then an expression was requested from those who believed the first day was the Sabbath, and not one arose.
We leave a church of 18 members in New Haven and Bristol. The Sabbath meetings are now held at North Middlebury, where several meet with us. We leave Bro. Yaw with them. God has blessed him with a good constitution, and has given him some success. If he puts his whole soul in the work, and labors especially on new ground, God will encourage him by blessing his labors.
In no place have we felt more sensibly that God was helping us, and in no place have the friends of the cause stood more faithfully by us in our labors. We will call on them again in due time.
At our recent lectures a young man came twenty miles to bid his friends good-bye, intending to study for the ministry. In one week he was a firm Sabbath-keeper. A brother brought one of his friends on foot eight miles to our Sunday meetings. He returned home with the intention of keeping the Sabbath, and last Sabbath he stated his determination to keep all God's commandments.
Brethren and sisters, let us go to work according to our solemn profession, and not get discouraged till we have given Vermont a fair trial.

D. T. BOURDEAU

New Haven Mills, Vt., March 20, 1871.