Report from Bro. Fuller.
By N. Fuller
BRO. WHITE: As it has been some time since I have reported through the Review, I would say, it has not been because I am not interested or engaged in the cause of present truth. I have labored since the State Conference when among the churches, to get before their minds the necessity of adopting the plan of systematic benevolence, and with willing hearts they are all coming up to it. The fault has been in the past, on the part of those of us who have labored in word and doctrine. May the Lord forgive us, and help us to do better in the future. We took the work in hand with the church in Allegany Co. to adopt the plan, and although this is a large church, numbering almost eighty members, not more than one or two stood back, and they had nothing to offer against it. The churches, as far as I have gone, have also adopted the plan recommended by the N. Y. and Pa. State Conference to give all instead of a part of their S. B. fund to the Conference. The cause is gaining ground in this country. Our meetings have been attended with deep interest, and we see means of good in almost every place where we have meetings. I have been laboring in McKean Co., Pa., some time in the past, in a place called Farmers' Valley. I closed meetings for the present, Feb. 1st. Four arose as candidates for baptism. Eleven united with the little church organized in that vicinity last October, numbering at that time thirteen, and now twenty-four. The former members feel greatly encouraged and strengthened. Others are convinced of the truth in this vicinity, and are only waiting to get strength to turn their feet into the testimonies of the Lord. I go back to-morrow to labor a little longer with them. Oh may the Lord make the word effectual. I have since been laboring with the church in Farmington, Tioga Co., eighty miles east of the above-named place. I gave six discourses, and the interest was such that I regretted to leave so soon. The Lord has something there to be done, that must soon be attended to. I send you with this, six subscribers for the Review, from those two places. I sold ten dollars worth of books. As several brethren have written me requesting labors in their vicinity, I would say, I will go anywhere and labor where the people are willing the Lord should work for them. I can judge the best by the condition of the church. They must be awake and letting their light so shine before men that others can see their good works. When will the time come when churches will live so that the Lord can work through them instead of detaining the servants of God to labor to get them right? This time must come and then the loud cry of the third angel will begin. Oh may God speed on the happy moment. I long to see the truth triumph. It is destined to triumph, thank Heaven. Men may oppose and Satan may hurl all his fiery darts, but God has this work in his own hands. Our captain is Jesus and he will lead every faithful soldier safe to those mansions he has gone to prepare. Then it depends upon our faithfulness, whether we wear the crown of glory and shout victory on the other shore. Praise the Lord for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Let the good work go on until the church is without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. Amen.