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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1868

A. O. THOMPSON

By A. O. Thompson

From Sr. Thompson.

BRO. SMITH: I still prize the REVIEW and the doctrine that it advocates. I have to-day read Bro. White's sermon with deep interest, and have felt condemned that I have had no more care for the widow and orphan. Bro. Whitney placed Spiritual Gifts in my hands last winter. I have read them with interest, and have also lent them to an aged friend, who told me yesterday that they were the best books that she had ever read, and that she should be an Adventist if she did not have so much to confess. Here is the great trouble in these last days: we are not willing to confess and forsake our sins, that we may find mercy.

I have felt of late that I could love my enemies, and do them good. I feel that I want to be a perfect overcomer. I want to confess that I have not lived out the reform as I should. I have been sensible for years that it was not right for Christians to eat, drink, and dress, so much like the world, and have condemned it in others, while I was not willing to come out and deny self. I am pleased with the dress reform; but it has been such a cross that I have wished that there was no such thing. I have a proud heart, and have much to overcome. My health is poor, and I feel the lack of patience; but I love to meet with God's children, though I cannot, through feebleness, well bear the excitement of a meeting. I need the prayers of the dear saints. If I were able, I would go to the Institute. I am glad for what God is doing for his people.

Yours hoping for eternal life when Jesus comes.

A. O. THOMPSON

St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.