MEETINGS IN SOUTH TROY.
By A. S. Hutchins
BRO. WHITE:—Last Sabbath and first-day, I spent with the brethren in South Troy. Our meetings were very encouraging. The subjects of the Gifts and Organization were presented on Sabbath, with good freedom. On first-day, three were baptized, and a church organized, consisting of sixteen members, from Potton, Jay and Troy. Others expect to unite when they have confessed their past crooked course with their neighbors and friends and made restoration where they have taken the advantage of those with whom they have had dealings. For they feel a measure of the same good spirit that Zaccheus felt the day that salvation came to his house. Luke xix, 8. The work of the Lord is moving steadily on, and the church is coming into the unity of the faith. The gifts are more and more appreciated by the spiritual, while the half-hearted realize not what God is doing for his people. Some we expect will murmur on at the instrumentalities that the Lord uses in his cause, but nevertheless he will make his own choice. Such would have made extremely poor generals, captains, or soldiers had they lived in the days of Barak. See Judges iv, 4-14. To have received knowledge of the divine will in sacred and civil matters through Deborah, a prophetess, must have been revolting to their feelings. How much better to have an humble heart and obedient faith and ever say, "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth."
A. S. HUTCHINS.
June 11, 1862.