VERMONT by I. Sanborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 2, 1878

VERMONT

By I. Sanborn

I COMMENCED a series of meetings in Bondville, Bennington Co., April 9. Have to date (April 15) held six meetings in the Methodist church. The congregations and the interest have steadily increased. The ministers attend, and assist in the opening and closing exercises. I am speaking on the immortality question. One of the ministers said to the congregation last evening that he did not like my doctrine, and that on the first Sunday in May he would prove that the soul is immortal, or he would quit preaching. I then told the people that I expected to be present to hear. He came to me after meeting, and said he did not know but he had taken too much upon him, “but I have promised,” said he, “and must try.”

Several of the first families are much interested, and anxious for me to commence on the Sabbath question, which I expect to do Wednesday evening. Have sold a few tracts. On account of the scarcity of money in these mountains, away from railroad communication, books and periodicals will sell slowly.

I am in the midst of the Green Mountains, which are full of villages and people that have never heard the third angel’s message. I think I shall like this as a field of labor. Bro. C. P. Whitford will join me in this work. I shall prize his assistance.

I. SANBORN.