Letters from Adventist Believers
Sister Sarah Philo writes from Bunker Hill, Mich. :
“The Review has not fallen to the ground here, for there was another sister told me last Sabbath that she was keeping the Sabbath, and would like to be baptized. We are starving for preaching here. Bro. Cornell, cannot you and your companion come and stay a week in Bunker Hill. You strewed the seed when you was here; come and see if it is not coming up. The Review is a welcome messenger to us three neighbors. I was sixty-six years old the 13th day of November. I do not use coffee, tea, snuff, or tobacco, or wear hoops. I want to wear the crown.” Sister P. Barrows writes from Bridgewater, Vt. :
“We should be very glad if some of the preaching brethren would come to Bridgewater with the third angel’s message. We do not have any preaching on that subject, but there are a great many Advent believers who think that the scenes of this world will close in a very few years. If any brother should come this way he would find a home with us while he stayed. Please direct as usual to Geo. Barrows, Bridgewater, Vt.” Bro. C. W. Stanley writes from Hundred Mile Grove, Wis., Dec. 24, 1861 : “Last Sabbath and First-day the Hundred Mile Grove Church came together in their first Quarterly Meeting, and enjoyed a blessed feast in the bonds of more perfect order, and a more perfect unity of the faith. “The Lord is jealous of his own humble remnant church, and will soon present it to his Father a peculiar people, zealous of good works. “The door of the church was opened and seven more were added to our number. We followed the order of S. B. in Good Samaritan No. 5, and put our all on the altar. The amount for 1862 will be $175.”