Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1866

Extracts from Letters.

Sr. Bliven writes from Laurel Glen, Conn. : I feel rejoiced to hear from you through the Review. I hail its weekly visits. It gives me renewed strength. I am trying to keep all the commandments of God, and hope to meet you all when Christ shall come to receive all that obey him. I would not give up that hope that is an anchor to the soul, for worlds like this. Pray on, brethren and sisters, we shall all meet to sing the song of redeeming grace. The time draws near.

Bro. C. Cramer writes from New Baltimore, Mich. : I would just say that I have been trying to keep the commandments of God since the first of last March. My sister was living with us, and she takes the Review. I began to read it, and also the Bible, and the History of the Sabbath, and found that if we would enter into the kingdom of God we must keep all his commandments. Myself and wife and sister are all the Sabbath-keepers there are in this place, and Memphis is the nearest place we have to go to meeting, which is 16 or 18 miles from here. If some of the messengers could call this way our door is open for them. We live two miles west of New Baltimore village, on the telegraph road in Macomb Co., Mich.

I believe we are living in the very last days, and it stands us in hand to live up to the rules laid down in the Bible. I beg an interest in the prayers of God's people that he may count us worthy of a seat at his right hand.

Sister Kellogg writes from Kickapoo, Wis. : It is cheering to me to hear from others of like faith; to hear of their determinations to press forward to the kingdom. The Lord is good to me, unworthy as I have been. I feel to praise his holy name for what he has done for me, in showing me present truth, and giving me a disposition to embrace the same. It makes me feel solemn when I hear of those that have been leaders in the cause of God, now trying to lead the little band of Sabbath-keepers astray, and break down the cause they have been building up. I feel to cry, O Lord, keep me from falling. I am determined to be more faithful, and be one of the watching, waiting ones, that when he, our Saviour comes, he will welcome me to joys immortal.

Bro. Littlefield writes from New Shoreham, Block Island, R. I. : The Lord has blessed us wonderfully in this place, while Satan is still trying to overcome and destroy the people of God. But I bless God that his power is above the wicked One, and that we yet have the privilege of meeting together to praise God, and to tell of his goodness, and to encourage one another to hold on and endure to the end.