JAMAICA, VERMONT by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1878

JAMAICA, VERMONT.

By A. S. Hutchins

OUR recent meetings in this place were a source of great encouragement to the church. We remained over two Sabbaths and one first-day. I was thankful to meet Eld. I. Sanborn here, and Sr. Sanborn, who has recently come to the State to labor with her husband.

Baptism was twice administered by Bro. Sanborn, seven receiving this solemn rite, four of whom united with the Jamaica church. The last Sabbath we were here, our hearts were cheered by the presence and testimonies of a brother and his companion who are much interested in the truth. This brother said, “It is the happiest day of my life.” He had been reading works furnished him by Bro. Howe, and the day previous, decided to keep the Sabbath. Doubtless his companion is now keeping it with him.

The next day I filled Bro. Sanborn’s appointment at Rawsonville, he returning to Windham to hear and review opposition sermons on the Sabbath. I spoke on the subject of the Sabbath. Here I met an old minister who was very confident in his assertions that the Sabbath is not binding. In proof of this, he affirmed that God showed him, “by the power of the Holy Ghost, that the seventh-day Sabbath is abolished.” He also testified that he does not study his Bible with reference to the subjects on which he is to speak, but that he opens his mouth and the Lord fills it with arguments. It is certainly too bad to accuse the Lord of filling a man’s mouth with so confused and self-contradictory a mass of ideas as he has.

Bro. and Sr. Sanborn were anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new tent from Chicago, which will be pitched in Weston. Bro. G. W. Page will join them as tent master. These three will compose tent company No. 1. Bro. and Sr. S. feel quite at home in Vermont, and are laboring with good courage. Let us remember them in our prayers. A. S. HUTCHINS.

West Fairlee, June 9.