The Blessings of the Review and Reformer
A BROTHER in Summit, Butler Co., Nebraska, to whom the REVIEW and Reformer have been sent free the past year, writes: I shall consider myself indebted until they are paid for. Circumstances are such that I cannot pay for them now. They were received with tearful thankfulness, and have been powerful agents in confirming me in the truth, and instructing me in much that was previously dark and incomprehensible. I like their sound and scriptural teaching, and rejoice with you in the blessed hope these truths inspire. I stand alone here in this great work, and feel there is much yet unlearned that will be necessary to successful labor. Oh! that God may prepare my mind, and sanctify me for this great work, that I may bear some humble part in the closing harvest. Please continue the REVIEW and Reformer another year. I cannot begin to tell you what a blessing they have been to me. The Reformer found me eating pork, drinking tea and coffee, and smoking tobacco. Its visits no longer find me in the use of these things. I can say, with a spirit of happy freedom, I am emancipated. Friends say, “So you have gone to living on ‘bran’?” Thus they designate our good diet of fruit, grains, and vegetables; but I reply, Yes, and have a sweet breath, sound lungs, a face free from pimples, good health, and a clear conscience. The weekly visits of the REVIEW have been like angel visits to my frontier home, bringing strength and cheer to my oftimes fainting heart.