LEWIS MARTIN by Lewis Martin

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 28, 1869

LEWIS MARTIN

By Lewis Martin

From Bro. Martin.

BELOVED BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I would say to you that my poor heart is often cheered by reading your epistles in the REVIEW. I would bid you all God speed, may the good Lord bless you all, and prepare you by his rich grace, for what he is preparing for you. For one, I do not realize the time in which we live as I should. I have been a believer in the Advent doctrine twenty-six years or more. I still believe that we have the truth, and I do desire to feel the force of it more than I do. Surely, this is a solemn time. No doubt some of you expected to see me at the camp-meeting at South Lancaster, Mass. I intended to be there, but my health was so poor that I did not feel able to go so far. I wanted very much to go, expecting to see many of the old, tried friends of the cause. I am one of the lonely ones. My health is poor; still I do feel like pressing forward. I hope and trust that you will remember me and mine in your prayers, and may we meet at last in the everlasting kingdom of God to part no more for ever. In love and hope.