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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 11, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 15.

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CANADA

By A. C. Bourdeau

Since I wrote my last report for our good paper, I have held meetings in Frelford, Bolton, and Stukely; have baptized four new converts, organized the Bolton, and Stukely church, ordained their elder and deacon, and enjoyed a refreshing season with them in attending to the ordinances of the Lord’s house.
Friday, Feb. 15, I came to Barford. Arrangements were made to have us occupy the Adventist chapel in Dixville, a village in Barford. Bro. and Sr. Hutchins came from Vermont, and were here with us over Sabbath and first-day, till the 18th. Bro. H.’s sermons were in his usual ready and familiar style. All appreciated the word spoken. Bro. Owen assisted in the work nearly two weeks, till the 26th. I have since continued to preach in the Adventist chapel evenings, and Sabbaths and Sundays; and Mrs. B. and I have spared no pains in visiting from house to house.
In our labors here we have had to encounter influences and oppositions of a very trying character; but the Lord has helped, and the truth has prevailed every time. To God be all the praise.
Sunday afternoon, March 10, a Baptist minister from Coaticook, known as a learned man, by invitation, gave a discourse in Dixville in defense of Sunday-keeping. I reviewed him the same evening; and the result was that before the next Sabbath twelve persons fully decided to keep the day enjoined in the fourth commandment. Truly they “can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”
Up to this date, March 25, twenty-four have embraced the truth, and forty are now keeping the Bible Sabbath in this place. The two Sabbaths just past have been precious days to us. As one after another arose in the meetings, and in tears expressed their appreciation of the truth, our hearts were full, and we felt to praise the Lord aloud. After the close of the Sabbath, the 23d, I commenced to organize the Barford church. Sixteen have united together in Christian fellowship, and nine more have expressed their desire to unite with them soon. A leader and a clerk have been appointed, and we have taken measures to lay out about seventy-five dollars in completing the chapel which our Adventist friends erected in 1873. A. C. Bourdeau.