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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 12, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 10.

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WM. W. PUTNAM

By Wm. W. Putnam

From Bro. Putnam.

BRO. SMITH: I would improve this opportunity to inform the brethren through the Review of our spiritual prosperity here in Norridgewock. We would first publicly express our gratitude for the faithful and ardent labors of Bro. Andrews, Bro. and sister Cornell, and Bro. Canright. The Lord has greatly blessed their labors, for through their instrumentality and the rich blessing of God we now have a good house for meetings, a Sabbath School, Systematic Benevolence, and a well-organized church, which many are waiting to join, some as soon as they can be disconnected from other churches, some when they shall have been baptized, and others when they have made a little more progress in temperance. The people seem to have a mind to work, each one against his own house as in the days of Nehemiah.
There has been for the past year a steady, progressive reformation; but for the past two months the work has taken a rapid start. Profane and high-handed sinners have grounded their arms of rebellion, and have come in and joined the praying army. Many children, some of very tender age, are, day after day, coming to Christ; and the aged, middle aged and youth, from adjoining towns, are coming in to our meetings and making their confession of the Sabbath truth. So God is winning to himself great victories of late in this place; and we would praise the Lord for additions to our numbers daily of such as we trust shall be saved.
And while God is adding to our numbers on the one hand, Satan has not been idle. Death has severed one of the converts from us. My youngest son, Melvin, on his fifteenth birthday last month, closed his eyes in death, happy in the love of Christ, after faithfully warning his friends to do present duty and prepare to meet him in the first resurrection. May the Lord help us all to be prepared for translation when the Life-giver comes, that we may greet our beloved ones, made immortal, on the evergreen shore.

WM. W. PUTNAM

Norridgewock, Me.