Heart to Heart
by Pastor Richard Wright

Many of us have dreaded the long hard winter that we have experienced this year.  We didn't think that spring would ever come.  I am hopeful now as I write this because the sun has been out for a few days and the snow is melting fast.  I can now see the top of my mail box from my living room window and that's a very good sign.  I have seen the robins this past week. They must know when it is safe to come back north.  I was down in Rockport, Massachusetts last week where I saw flowers growing and no snow.  I'm feeling better already, spring is finally here.
We as Adventists have been looking for Christ to come for over 150 years and He's not here yet.  The Christian world has been looking for some 2000 years and Christ has not yet come.  We have always believed that His coming is soon and we preach and teach that.  We're tired of this sin sick world and all the heartaches and sorrows that go with it.  Twice in the last chapter of Revelation Christ says "Behold, I come quickly". In vs. 7, 12 and 20 He says, "Surely I come quickly".  But where is He?  All of a sudden spring is here.  Could it be that when Jesus comes, He will come quickly?  Whether that be this year or five years from now.  As we keep looking and hoping for spring to come bringing new life, so we must keep looking and hoping and praying for Christ's' soon return, for then we will have new life.

For about four years the town of Woodstock hired SDA teachers.  All the students came from SDA homes.  Those teachers included, Eva Simpkins, Edith Simpkins, Christine Pye, Maybelle Applebee (Thurlow). 

Students front row (L to R): Maurice Benson, Arthur Thurlow, Everall Wilson, Everad Harlow, 2nd row: Gladys Thurlow (Haskell), Evelyn Benson (Appleby), Eda Wilson (Waterhouse), Shirly Wilson, Raymond Wilson, Leland Wilson, 3rd row: Mary Hendrickson (Fleming)- Simpkins, Jenny Silvan (Cox), Elsie Wilson (Wilson), Back row: Simpkins, Edith Silva (Herrick), Myrtle Hendrickson (Thurlow), Myra Wilson (Harlow)

The Perkins School used to be between Walter Appleby III's driveway and the Perkins brook.  It was taken down and used to build an addition onto the Union School. 

P.S.  If anyone has access to any more bit of history.  We'd love for you to share.