Seeking Cleansing and Church Organization
By C. D. Cook
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It truly makes me feel to rejoice to read your cheering testimonies through our beloved paper, which is all the preacher we have here. Oh! how we welcome its weekly visits, and read its contents with delight. I can truly say that I received more than double pay for attending the Owosso Camp-meeting. The cutting remarks from the lips of the servants of God so opened self to my view that I could but exclaim, Lord, is it I; and the answer seemed to be, Thou art the man. Oh! how unlike my blessed Master I found myself to be. But since that time I have been striving to wean my affections from this vain world of affliction, and to have my thoughts stayed on the Lord. Oh! how I want the love of God applied to my heart like the refiner's fire or like the fuller's soap, so that I may be perfectly cleansed from the love of worldly treasures, or anything of a sinful character. Dear brethren and sisters, I do humbly beg an interest in your prayers, not only in my behalf, but also in behalf of the little handful here who are trying to live out the truths of God's word by keeping his commandments. We are waiting with patience for a messenger to be sent to organize a little church here. It is our prayer that God will open the way soon. Your unworthy brother, trying to overcome.
C. D. COOK.