VERMONT by C. W. Stone

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1879

VERMONT

By C. W. Stone

Morrisville.—We closed our tent-meetings here July 27, having continued them six weeks. We had a good audience most of the time, and especially so the last week. At the close of the camp-meeting here last fall, quite a number were almost persuaded to accept the truth, and had the interest been followed up then, perhaps it would have been better. But an enemy sowed tares, and some were deceived, and some, not satisfied, waited for help. It required much patient labor to remove the errors of no-lawism.

The results of the meetings seem small, if judged by the number of those who have decided to obey. But these are individuals of real worth. One is a very intelligent lady, the wife of an eminent lawyer, who is also candidly studying the truth. This lady has been an active Christian worker. May the Lord bless her in upholding the light of truth. Another is a young man of twenty-three years, who has a good academic education, and rare mental talents. He has intended to enter a theological school this fall, principally to study Hebrew and Greek, preparatory to engaging in the ministry. On the last day of our meeting he took a firm stand to keep the Sabbath.

At the urgent request of the people of Elmore, who furnished teams and moved our tents and furniture, we are now presenting the truth in this place, four miles distant from Morrisville. Several persons had become interested by attending our meetings at Morrisville, and desired to hear further. The interest here is great. One young man living a mile away, a non-professor, working a little too late in the hay field on two occasions last week, hurried from the field to the meeting, taking his hired help with him, and leaving his dairy of nine cows to be milked after the meeting. He said the cows would wait for him, but the meeting would not. This is a farming community, and there is but a very small village. Our temporal wants are fully supplied by the kind-hearted people. May the Lord reward their interest by helping them to lay hold of the truth.

C. W. Stone.