A. S. HUTCHINS by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1875

A. S. HUTCHINS

By A. S. Hutchins

Vermont.

Since my last report I have spent one Sabbath at East Richford, and preached two funeral sermons in this section. The church here have a nice and commodious house of worship. Our meeting with them was a season of encouragement, and though their numbers are reduced by death and removals, we hope the remaining members may so humbly walk with God, and obediently serve him, that others may be added to the church.

Have spent two Sabbaths and first-days at Berkshire. The last time I was there, baptized one, who embraced the Sabbath and the religion of the Bible at the time of our meetings there last fall.

With the return of the next Sabbath, another sister who had carefully weighed the evidences for the holy rest-day of the Lord, commenced to honor him by hallowing it, her husband also uniting with her. Their interest was awakened by reading the Voice of Truth, with tracts, &c., furnished them through the Tract and Missionary workers. The providences of God are calling loudly for more workers in this fast-widening branch of the great and final work for the world.

By request of the Methodists in the village where I live, I preached to them two Sundays. The last day I spoke from 2 Cor. 5:20, and on sanctification. I presented to them the fact that to be reconciled to God requires submission and obedience to his law which man disobeyed in the beginning, causing his fall and introducing sin into the world; and that Bible sanctification is the fruit of obedience to God's revealed will. I also attended meetings several Sabbaths with the brethren in this town.

Just before leaving home for Jamaica I obtained several subscribers for the Voice of Truth, scattered quite a number of tracts, and left one man and his wife reading with interest, who had commenced the observance of the Sabbath.