Potter Valley, California.
By E. A. Briggs
I HAVE been laboring here at intervals for several weeks, and can report as the result that eight earnest souls are striving to follow the example of Christ in keeping his Father's commandments. John 15:10; 1 Peter 2:21. In this place I had to contend with a new and peculiar error of these last days; i. e., the denial of our Saviour's existence previous to his birth in Bethlehem. When pointed to scriptures like John 6:38, where the Lord speaks of coming down from Heaven to accomplish a definite object, the advocates of this error tell us that it was a word or promise which came down. If so, Christ desired to be turned to a mere promise again, according to these words found in John 17:5: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." In Col. 1:13-18, we learn that the Lord Jesus is the first-born of every creature, the creator of all things; the beginning. See also John 1:1-3; 3:16, 17, 31; 6:62; 8:58; 1 Pet. 1:11; Heb. 1:1-11, etc. Let us thank the Lord that his truth is so plain, so easily vindicated. My post-office for the present will be Pleasant Grove, Sutter Co., Cal.