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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 21.

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Vermont Conference.

By A. S. Hutchins

AGREEABLY to appointment, this conference was held at Wolcott, Oct. 4 and 5. We were happy to meet with so large a number of our brethren and sisters from Vermont and Canada East. The good Spirit was with us. Under its sacred influence the meeting opened, progressed, and terminated. The servants of the Lord were free in preaching his word, and the brethren and sisters in giving their testimonies. Bro. D. T. Bourdeau spoke to edification on the subject of the sealing of God's people, and the duty of the church in this dark hour of the night.
Our business meeting opened first-day morning, and continued till 1 o'clock P. M., when we found so many friends gathered expecting to hear preaching at this hour, that it was thought best for Bro. Evans to remain at the meeting-house and preach a discourse, while the rest of the members of the conference should retire to the house of Bro. Bailey to complete the business before us.
At the opening of this last meeting there remained some sixty dollars to be raised to defray tent expenses and pay the laborers. Contrary to expectation, this was raised immediately. Considering the hard times, and that we had raised about forty dollars during the brief intermission, for the Review Office, it was evident there was a mind on the part of the brethren and sisters to work for the Lord, not only in word, but with their purses. We think this was decidedly one of our best conferences in Vt. The blessing of the Most High does and will attend his servants, and rest upon the church, as we advance in union and Bible order.
It was the opinion of this conference that some of the messengers were bound by home cares, who should be free to labor in the great harvest-field. The remarks of Bro S. Pierce to such were to the point. He said, "A sacrifice must be made. Take the property in one hand, and the truth in the other, and you will sweep the board!" A. S. HUTCHINS. Oct. 12, 1862.