Visits Among the Churches
By J. B. Frisbie
Bro. Smith: I have visited, in company with Bro. Lowree, Vergennes, Hastings and Bowne. We found most of the friends holding on firmly to the truth, with a desire to rise with the message. We spent the most of the time in Bowne, as there had been but little labor there, as to what there had been in the other places. The Lord is at work there. We are much in hopes that some who have been halting between two opinions will take hold of the truth in good earnest. We labored early and late for the church and people there. Most of the church made hearty confessions of faults and wrongs, which God approved by the witness of his Spirit. God works and Satan tries to hinder. But there was victory on Israel's side, and the church was much strengthened. One has fallen so far from the light, that the light has become darkness and how great that darkness. We pity the condition of the man or woman who turns from the holy commandment of the Sabbath. Better never have known the way. There are a few in Vergennes that are holding on to the truth, and seem to be firm. We tarried one day and two nights. At Hastings we stayed four nights and three days, in which it rained most of the time. The little church are trying to live.