Report from Bro. Bostwick.
By John Bostwick
Bro. White: I closed my lectures sometime since on Greenwood Prairie. A goodly number have taken hold of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I now hold occasional meetings with them. Last Sabbath was our Monthly Meeting at Oronoco. Quite a number were present at this meeting. Seven loads from Greenwood Prairie, ten miles distant, were present on this occasion, and notwithstanding our eldest child had just closed his eyes in death, we felt to move forward in the strength of the Lord to the cheerful discharge of the duties of the day. With much freedom we addressed one of the most intelligent and respectable congregations ever assembled in this place on the subject of the two resurrections. This was a solemn, and I trust a profitable, meeting. After meeting we repaired to the water where we baptized twelve willing souls in the presence of the largest assembly ever gathered to this place on such an occasion. The Spirit of the Lord was with us, and was enjoyed by many. On first-day I was called upon to preach a funeral discourse five miles north of this place to a large company who had assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to an amiable and lovely woman who had made up her mind to become a Christian, but who before she had an opportunity of publicly declaring her intentions, was suddenly cut down by the enemy—death. While moving forward in the discharge of these duties, we felt to say with the poet, “Oh what can buoy the spirits up,
’Tis this alone—the Blessed Hope.” I thus remain, yours in affliction.