Report from Bro. Hutchins.
By A. S. Hutchins
BRO. WHITE: I want to say that I feel truly thankful for the visit which you and sister White and Bro. Loughborough made us when in Vermont; also for the meetings which I enjoyed with you. These privileges I call to mind with lively satisfaction. Unfavorable as was the weather and traveling at the time you were here, I am confident your labors proved a blessing to the cause in Northern Vermont. Since parting with you at Enosburgh, I have attended meetings as follows. Sabbath, Nov. 5, I met with the brethren and sisters in Eden, and spoke with freedom twice. Sabbath, the 12th, met with the church in Sutton, and spoke in the forenoon and afternoon. In the evening we were refreshed and strengthened while attending the ordinances of the Lord's house. Sabbath, the 19th, preached at Brownington. The people of the Lord seemed strengthened from this day's opportunity. Nov. 24, preached a funeral sermon in Potton, C. E. Sabbath, 26th, met with the brethren in Quarterly Meeting at East Richford, and spoke once. God's servants were free in speaking and the church not a little comforted. Sabbath, Dec. 3, met with a few brethren and friends in Potton, C. E., and spoke to them about two hours, on the messages. I learn there was a general turnout the next day expecting there would be preaching at the school-house. But being unexpectedly called to South Troy, some sixteen miles, to attend a funeral, I could not stop to hold meetings as I had thought I might. Dec. 7, I went to Wolcott, 24 miles, to visit the sick in Bro. S. H. Peck's family. Remained here several days. Preached twice on the Sabbath. Sabbath, 17th, held a meeting with the church in Brownington. On the 18th, the Irasburgh and Charleston churches met to renew their pledges on s. B. The brethren took hold of the work in good earnest. Nearly all raised their figures, (some more than fifty per cent. above last year), for 1865, and assured each other that they felt better immediately for this advance. Sabbath, Dec. 31, attended the Quarterly Meeting at Wolcott, and spoke twice. In the evening we met to commemorate the dying love of the dear Saviour. Some matters of difficulty were adjusted, after which the solemn and yet impressive ordinances of the church were attended. It was a refreshing season. As the past year was numbered among the things that were, and we entered upon 1865, we felt to enter anew into the work of the Lord, and to seek a closer walk with him, and in the future bear a more convincing evidence to the world that we are seeking to lay up treasure in Heaven. As the earth groans under its heavy load of sin, and is fast fading away, oh may we each earnestly seek to secure "an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away." Barton Landing, Vt., Jan. 1865.