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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 2.

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D. SPOONER

By D. SPOONER

From Bro. Spooner.

BRO. SMITH: I commenced to obey the solemn warning of the third angel’s message last spring, while Elders Van Horn and Canright were preaching in this place; and I feel happy that I ever sought diligently to know the true plan of salvation, and I do humbly believe that God did send his ministering servants here to warn sinners to repentance. I am determined to live out the present truth, be an overcomer, and be ready when Christ comes to make up his jewels, to meet him with joy and not with grief. Myself and companion are trying to keep all the commandments of God. I am not always free from errors and mistakes, and when I discover these I am deeply pained, and I ask God to forgive and take me into his keeping. Let us not despair, whatever betides. God’s people and his cause are safe. We have many trials and strong enemies, and those within do often betray us, but then we must look to Jesus, and him alone, and he will save us. James iv, 10, says, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” Now my dear friends, the Adventists here in Tuscola are looked at as a deluded people, and somewhat despised and persecuted, but if God will lift us up, what care we what the world says? Why then repine thou tried and afflicted one? Are not the promises of God sufficient? Look up. Has not the Lord said, As thy day, so shall thy strength be? And now my dear brethren, I thank the Lord for what he has done for me.
May each one of us realize the solemn and awful time in which we are living, put our whole trust in God, and at last be gathered home.
Pray for me and for us in Tuscola, that we may go through with the remnant to Mt. Zion.
Yours seeking a home in the new earth.

D. SPOONER

Tuscola, Mich.