p. 156 | CARE FOR THE POOR by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1868

CARE FOR THE POOR.

By James White

The following letter may be read with profit by those who have health and abundance. I will send the book. The REVIEW and Reformer should be sent to all such free.

JAMES WHITE.

DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: I enclose thirteen cents, for which please send me Life Incidents. I am a cripple. I received my injury in the army. My disease is of the spine, which causes paralysis of the lower extremities, consequently I am not able to sit up or walk any. I get a pension from the Government, but with very close living it will not support myself and family.

I have tried to live up to the requirements of the third message for three years past. I love God’s holy Sabbath, and have wished that I could be with my brothers and sisters of like precious faith. I am trying to live out the health reform. I don’t use tea, coffee, nor tobacco. I take the REVIEW, but I am afraid that I shall be compelled to do without it. I shall be sorry to part with it, but I am in such straitened circumstances that I cannot pay for it. I would like the Health Reformer very much, but I felt that I could not, with propriety, and justice to my family, take it, and the REVIEW. I fear, live as careful as we may, that we shall suffer for the comforts of life. But my trust is in God. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and I hope that I shall be permitted to live with him in the earth made new.

Dear Bro. White, pardon me for thus trespassing upon your time. I felt that I would like the book. I can’t do anything but read and write. Can you send me one of the testimonies. Pray for me, one of the afflicted, lone ones.

Yours in hope. Geauga Co., Ohio. HENRY C. JEWELL.