VERMONT by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

VERMONT

By A. S. Hutchins

Meetings recently held with the church in West Bolton and Jericho, with visits from house to house in every Sabbath-keeping family, have resulted in good to this church. I was with the friends here two Sabbaths. We also held one meeting on first-day, and some evening meetings. The Lord has been very good to this people. The truth has gathered some precious souls, and held them from apostasy, while others around them, professing godliness, have gone far into darkness.

Last Sabbath I held the last meeting with them. I tried to set forth the dangers and high privileges of the church in these last days, showing from the Scriptures how many of the first house of Israel fell through unbelief, and a spirit of murmuring, and that these things are written for our admonition, that we, in the closing hours of time, should guard ourselves on these very points.

Brn. Hubbel Smith and Daniel Fuller were chosen and solemnly set apart by ordination to act as elders of the church. May God bless them, and their families, and the church. Three were received into the church, and our good meetings closed with the celebration of the ordinances of the Lord’s house. A. S. HUTCHINS.