To Correspondents by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1872

To Correspondents.

By R. F. Cottrell

D. M.:—More than twenty years ago I came to the belief that the third angel's message was due and in process of fulfilment; and I have not wavered from that conclusion for an hour. And how can I? The signs that our own government will form an image of the papacy are increasing; and the faith that we adopted so long ago is now seemingly a fact. Soon it will be accomplished. I am looking forward to that event with deep interest; and laboring to prepare for the events that will follow, and to persuade others to prepare.

The solemn truths to which our attention is being called under this message are of more importance, and better calculated to purify and prepare the people of God to stand in the evil time that is before us, than the setting of time could be. And this thing has had a fair trial by those who reject our faith, and it has proved unprofitable and vain.

Time will very soon tell us whether the coming of the Lord and the resurrection of the just are events to take place in 1873; and I am satisfied to labor on in the Lord's cause and let time test the truth of the theory. The image must be formed, or the word of God will be broken; and when that is done, we shall have something of greater interest to attend to, than the preaching of time. R. F. COTTRELL.