Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

Extracts from Letters.

Sister Esther Cummings, of Dorset, Wis., says: I want to say to my brethren and sisters that I am still striving to be one of God's remnant people which will be found without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. I feel to rejoice in hope of the glory of God. I feel very unworthy to speak of the magnificent glory which ere long will be manifested in the saints. Oh, that I may be ready with all those who will find a ready welcome with our Lord, when he cometh to take home his weary saints to rest. I feel determined to persevere to the end, amidst all opposition, if I can but win the prize, and wear the victor's crown, and behold my friends with crowns. I think our cup will then be full.

Bro. Mc Queen, of Palestine, Iowa, says: I became a believer in present truth in 1863, under the labors of Bro. Snook. I was raised a Roman Catholic, but had my path first shaped by reading the debate between Campbell and Percell. I can thank God to-day, and for evermore, that I have been brought to a knowledge of his will. His word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. May my prayer ever be, Open mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Annie M. Clarke, of Charlotte, Mich., says: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." We need on the whole armor of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. May the Lord help me, and all the brethren and sisters of like precious faith, to watch and pray always, that we may be accounted worthy to escape all the things that are coming on the earth, and to stand before the Son of man, is my fervent prayer.