DEAR BRO. WHITE:—As I read from the Review the increasing interest in the cause of truth, where the sound of the third angel's message is spreading, it affords me much consolation.
Truly it is encouraging and gratifying to learn that many honest souls are already aware of the "famine" in the land among all professed Christians, who reject the message of Rev. xiv, 9-12; "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord." Amos viii, 11.
Jan. 29th I spent the Sabbath with Bro. Barr in Corinth, (where I formerly stood connected with the F. W. Baptist church,) and though none have yet embraced the present truth in that place, the way seems preparing for honest souls to be saved by its reception. O, that the Lord would speed the time!
Feb. 1st and 2d we held meetings in Reading, where we found a few keeping the Sabbath, and others desirous of knowing what they must do to be saved. On the 6th day of the same week, Bro. Barr left for Boston. Sabbath following, I met with a few of the dear brethren in Bridgewater, and endeavored to comfort them and persuade them to remember that "yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry." Last Sabbath we enjoyed another very good meeting at Waterbury, and from a number who spoke, I heard it said, "this begins to seem like our meetings in 1844."
I would further add that for some months past, the cause of truth has been gaining ground in Northern Vermont. Old stubborn prejudices against the truth are fast giving away in many places, and ears are open to hear and hearts to receive the truth. May the Lord enable all of his children to remember and heed the words of the blessed Saviour, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."