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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 17.

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E. H. CALKIN

By E. H. Calkin

From Bro. Calkin.

BRO. SMITH: If one so poor and feeble in the cause may be allowed so to speak; we are a little company here that are trying to live in the faith of Jesus and to keep the commandments. We are living distant from any church. Some of us have never heard an Advent sermon, and never had the privilege of uniting with the remnant church; but we bless God for the assurance that, though our names are not on the list of church-members here, we have the witness that they are recorded in Heaven. We hold prayer-meetings every Friday night; the Lord always meets with us, and we feel him a present help in time of need. Though there are many years of our lives that seem to be a blank or a desert waste that has yielded no fruit, we bless God that we were not cut off in our sins, but our lives are spared and we are permitted to testify to others the goodness of God to us. When we reflect what our salvation has cost, we mourn for our negligence. How thankful ought we to be for these privileges that are offered to us without money and without price; that our lives are cast in a land where we are permitted to worship God according to the dictates of our own consciences. I am not unmindful of the blessings of God to me, though poor and unable to work, yet I thank the Lord that he has not forgotten me. I have kind friends that care for my necessities though I have been confined to my bed nearly five years, not being able to stand on my feet, yet I rejoice in the prospect of the coming of Christ, when this decrepid body shall be changed and made like His most glorious body; when this mortal shall put on immortality. Blessed prospect! glorious promise! to those that work righteousness, fear God, and keep his commandments.
The Review is sent to me free, for which I am thankful. I am desirous of getting all the information that I can. I want to live a humble Christian while I do live, to improve my time to the best of my ability, and to take up my cross and follow Jesus.
There are four or five here that would like to be baptized. I desire an interest in the prayers of all God's children, that, though my body is trammeled with afflictions here, I may be freed from them in the world to come and reign triumphant through the blood of Jesus.

E. H. CALKIN

Martin Co., Minn.