MEETINGS AT RANSOM CENTER.
By H. A. ST. JOHN
ACCORDING to appointment, Bro. Joseph Bates met with the church at Ransom Center, Oct. 10, 11. This series of meetings, we believe, has been conducive of much good to this people. It should be a matter of very great encouragement to the little flock, that the light of present truth is growing brighter and brighter as they near the consummation of all things. Our dear Bro. Bates clearly set before us the importance of cutting loose from the world, and consecrating ourselves, and all that we have, to the Lord. He explained to us how we had entered the third watch, and that the return of our Lord from the wedding was not his coming in the clouds of heaven, as we had formerly supposed; but that it referred to his coming from the most holy to the holy apartment of the heavenly sanctuary, at the close of probation, and just prior to the pouring out of the seven last plagues. These solemn truths produce a better harmony in the word of God, and are certainly of sufficient moment to arouse the Laodicean church from their lukewarmness, to an earnest seeking for the gold, white raiment, and eyesalve, within their reach. The meetings were interesting, instructive, and profitable throughout. Those on Sunday were well attended by candid hearers. After the forenoon meeting on first-day, five willing souls followed their Lord in baptism, and arose, we trust, to walk in newness of life. Four of them were children. The ordinance meeting, evening after the Sabbath, was the best we ever attended. Most of us feel like consecrating ourselves to the cause of God now as we never have done before. Oh! that we may pay our vows unto the Most High. Now is the time to quicken our pace if we would not be left behind in the glorious work of God now going forward in the earth. Pray for us.