Granville, Vt by Mrs. I. H. Archer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 11, 1873

Granville, Vt.

By Mrs. I. H. Archer

We have no minister to report for us, and I take the liberty to say, We are all still striving to follow on to know the Lord, although at times it seems that we make rather slow progress. We were much disappointed a few weeks since in not seeing Bro. Hutchins; however the brethren gathered in from Roxbury, Waitsfield, and Warren, so that with the blessing of the Lord we had a most excellent meeting. The Lord owned and blessed, and we felt that we were another day’s journey toward the kingdom. Am glad to say that we are in union and harmony with each other, and, as far as I know, all are striving to keep pace with the body and overcome all besetments, that complete victory may be ours at last.

We have quite a little amount of S. B. pledged, and mostly paid. One of our number has been sick, and others have removed from the place of meetings, yet we have had a meeting nearly every Sabbath through the winter.

There is one family of first-day Adventists who meet with us quite regularly, and the Methodists I think have never felt so friendly toward us and our views as at the present time. We have a Methodist minister here who seems quite zealous in his way; is having quite interesting meetings. Some have been converted, and we can but think that if some of our able preachers could come and present the truth, honest souls might be gathered in. For this we wait, and pray, and firmly believe that the Lord in his own good time will send us the needed help. We will endeavor to so adorn our profession by a well-ordered life and godly conversation that other hearts may not be steeled against us.

Some of us have devoted this day to fasting and prayer, that our neighbors and friends may receive the truth, become commandment-keepers, and thus be prepared for translation when Jesus comes. Pray for us, dear brethren and sisters, that we all continue faithful and have many more to go with us to our glorious Edenic home. We have not a doubt but Jesus soon is coming to call his ransomed children home, and oh! what a blessed moment to them. Let us all be faithful, slay every idol, overcome every sin, that we may be of that happy number who shall sing the song of redeeming love through an endless eternity.

In behalf of the Granville church, Mrs. I. H. Archer. Feb. 24, 1873.