p. 165 | VISIT TO SUTTON, C. E by A. Stone

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1861

VISIT TO SUTTON, C. E.

By A. Stone

DEAR BRO. SMITH: Last Sabbath and first-day I spent with the brethren in North Sutton, Canada East, where a new field of labor has lately been entered by Brn. A. C. and D. T. Bourdeau, assisted by Brn. Hutchins and Sperry, and about twenty have begun to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. The interest still continues. The whole community are stirred by the power of truth, and many minds are inquiring whether these things are so. May the Lord guide them

to a right decision upon those important subjects that have been brought before them. There was freedom in speaking, and apparently much interest in hearing the word.

A feeling of solemnity came over me as I gazed upon the large congregation who were in all probability making a final decision in matters that concern their salvation. The work in North Sutton goes on amid opposition from the surrounding clergy, who labor with a zeal worthy of a better cause, to convince the people that the first day of the week is the Sabbath of the Lord, notwithstanding the Lord says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath;" thus fulfilling the prophecy of Eze. xxii, 26: "Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them."

It is quite evident that the Lord's time to work more powerfully in the East has come. Let the church in the East gird on the armor anew. Let us awake to duty and pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send more laborers into his harvest. A. STONE.

Eden, Vt., March 18, 1861.