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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 3, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 12

Sister N. J. Lucas writes from Maine: We are taught in 1st John iii, 4, that sin is the transgression of the law. Oh! how careful we should be to keep the whole law of God. “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light,” Rom. xiii, 12. I believe we are living in the time when the dragon is wroth with the woman, and is making war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. xii, 17. I desire to be more like my blessed Master. I want to be meek, humble, and forgiving. Thank God! if we keep his holy commandments we shall be. Jesus is about finishing his closing work. He lingers a little while longer to plead for sinful man. It is but a little while longer, that he will plead. He will then lay aside his priestly robes, and come as King. Oh! who does not want to see the King in his beauty, and hear him say, “Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world?” May it be, dear reader, your happy lot and mine, if living when the Lord comes, to be caught up to meet him in the air; or, if sleeping in the grave, to have a part in the first resurrection.

Bro. Wm. Harris writes from Port Byron, N. Y.: I would like to let the friends know where I stand, as I do not see a believer in the truth once in two or three years. I have not been to meeting since the tent meeting at Port Byron, my companion not being able to ride 30 or 40 miles to meeting. But I find by reading the Review that I am not the only one that is deprived of the company of those of like precious faith. A year ago, my health being poor, I was advised to take a patent right to sell. I had to borrow to travel with. I spent in that way about fifty dollars, and came home sick, without selling a dollar’s worth; This is all the experience I want in patent rights. I pen these lines to warn others. But the Lord is very merciful; and I can say to-day, that I love the Advent doctrine. It brings my Saviour near. The Review comes to us weekly, laden with precious fruit. Its sermons are meat in due season. The Review possesses more than threefold interest since the enlargement. In most every paper I find something new, some new light, showing us the mile posts as we travel along. I desire to take warning by the admonitions, that I may overcome all my besetting sins, and with you be remembered when Jesus comes.