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MEETINGS IN VERMONT

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 8.

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MEETINGS IN VERMONT.

By A. S. Hutchins

I can say respecting the meetings which I have held the past two months, they have been very good generally, both those held with the churches, and those more especially for the benefit of such as have not practically embraced the truths we publish. It is, however, proper to say that such has been the traveling most of the time, that it has been very difficult to get together for general meetings, had nothing else stood in the way.
We regret that so far as being able to transact tract and missionary business in the general tract meeting at Bordoville, the first of the present month, the meeting proved a failure, for want of the presence of the officers of the society. So we were unable to act on important matters; yet the meeting in some respects was crowned with success.
Bro. L. Bean, vice-president of the T. and M. Society, resides here. He was able to be in the meeting but a few minutes. In addition to a protracted and heavy affliction which has visited his companion, he has been sick for two months, in which time his sufferings have been great, and he has narrowly escaped death. Last week he was able to leave home for the Sanitarium at Battle Creek. We trust our brethren and sisters will remember Bro. and sister Bean in their prayers.
We earnestly desire that fervent prayer may be offered to God for the prosperity of the work of present truth in our State. We need to awake to the importance of the fast-flying moments. The Master is coming soon, coming quickly, and who, oh! who of us will be ready for that event? We are now made to hope that an experienced laborer will soon be in our State to labor a year or more. Are we prepared to stand by such an one and follow him everywhere by our prayers as he may go out to gather precious souls?
The angels are watching the development of character and a daily record is being made of our lives. What will that record be when we meet it? May it be, “Well done.”
A. S. HUTCHINS.