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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 16.

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WILLIAM H. WILD

By William H. Wild

From Bro. Wild.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS of like precious faith: It rejoices my heart to read your testimonies in the Review of what the Lord is doing for you. God has set his seal upon the third angel's message, and the powers of earth combined cannot stop it. He is well pleased to have his servants magnify his holy law, especially that part that has so long been trampled under foot, and covered up by Papal rubbish; I mean the holy Sabbath-day. Oh! how we welcome its golden moments! When I contrast the past experience of my life in Pleasantville with the present, how grateful I feel to our Heavenly Father! I look back a few years, and I find myself all alone here in keeping the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus, wading through trials deep, and through much persecution; with threats of imprisonment for keeping God's holy law, but none of those things moved me. Persecution for righteousness' sake only drives us to the dear Saviour.
Now there are 16 Sabbath-keepers here. Oh! what union; what love; the report is, See how these children love one another. We are of one mind, striving together for the faith once delivered to the saints, and hold up our banner, the royal law of God. Some have refused to come to our meetings; a few stayed away; but the Lord has been with us; he has sent the people out. We could not pull down our colors to please a certain few; the message must be proclaimed, the harvest is drawing near, and souls are perishing for lack of knowledge. The harvest truly is great. Dear brethren and sisters, it is true the keeping of the Sabbath makes us a peculiar people; it makes us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are round about us; but let us look for a moment to Zion's lovely Mount. Who are they that are to stand thereon? Who are they that will follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth? Are they not commandment-keepers? With such a hope, what can we not endure here?
“We have heard from that bright, that holy land, We have heard and our hearts are glad.”
The sweet spirit of truth is with us, and the Lord is continually adding to our numbers. God bless you all; think it not strange concerning the fiery trials that try you. While you love and obey God's law, you must expect trials and persecutions, even from those of your own household. Oh! then, “let friends all forsake us, and foes all unite.” We are comforted with the promise left us by our elder Brother: “Lo I am with you always.” Unto you then that believe, he is precious.

WILLIAM H. WILD

Westchester Co. N. Y.