Meetings in West Monroe. N. Y.
By F. Wheeler
Bro. Smith: I spent Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 21st and 22d, with the brethren at West Monroe, according to appointment. Owing to some delay the notice of my coming did not reach them in season for them to make arrangements for a general meeting, yet a goodly number of brethren and sisters from Roosevelt and Parish were present on the Sabbath, and we had an interesting and profitable meeting. I remained with them about eight days and gave eight lectures, generally to large and interested congregations. The church, although young in experience in present truth, are firmly grounded in the commandments of God and becoming more and more interested in the evidences of our Lord's near return to give immortality to all his saints. A number in the community admit the claims of the Sabbath, who have not yet commenced to keep it. Others are investigating. May the Lord help them to understand and obey the whole truth. Among those who have become interested in the truth is a young man formerly from Baden, in Germany, who was educated a Catholic, but is now rejoicing in all the light of present truth; also a mother and her son and daughter, formerly from Berne, in Switzerland, educated in the doctrines of the Reformation as taught by Zwingle. The mother (an elderly lady) walked six miles on Sabbath morning to attend the meeting. Thus the truth is gathering from different classes and different nations, and uniting them in the one faith, and enabling them to rejoice together in hope of soon standing together with the 144,000 on mount Zion with the Lamb. I should have remained longer in that vicinity, but the feeble health of my family made it necessary for me to return to them. I intend to visit them ere long if circumstances permit. Hubbardsville, N. Y., Feb. 3d, 1860.